{"id":19250,"date":"2014-09-14T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19250"},"modified":"2014-09-14T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T06:12:09","slug":"iran-loses-to-dpr-korea-at-afc-u-16-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/09\/14\/iran-loses-to-dpr-korea-at-afc-u-16-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Loses to DPR Korea at AFC U-16 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran suffered a bitter defeat against DPR Korea at the AFC U-16 Championship quarter-final on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran lost to the Korean team 4-2 in a penalty shootout after the match finished goalless in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team could not book a place in the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile as the top four teams qualified for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust now it&#8217;s too difficult for the players to accept this situation, but it can be a good lesson for their future careers,\u201d said Iran coach Mostafa Ghanbarpour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played at the same level as them and maybe had more chances, but penalties are a tough way to go out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had practiced penalties for the past two months, but in a tournament situation it is totally different. I just asked them all to do their best as even some of the greatest players in the world miss penalties,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran suffered a bitter defeat against DPR Korea at the AFC U-16&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-irans-u16"],"views":3177,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}