{"id":19436,"date":"2014-10-17T21:45:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T04:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19436"},"modified":"2014-10-17T21:46:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T04:46:24","slug":"india-go-down-to-iran-in-afc-womens-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/10\/17\/india-go-down-to-iran-in-afc-womens-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"India go down to Iran in AFC women&#8217;s championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>zeenews.india &#8211; Dhaka,\u00a0 <strong>The Under-16 Indian women&#8217;s football team, ahead by a solitary goal for the majority of the match, conceded two late second half strikes to go down to Iran 1-2 in their first group match of the 2015 Asian Football Confederation&#8217;s (AFC) Women&#8217;s Championship qualifiers at the Bangabandhu Stadium here Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iranian substitute Fatemeh Hosseni scored two late goals &#8211; on 71 and 87 minutes &#8211; to overturn India&#8217;s lead in a Group B match, obtained by midfielder Premi Chiru on 13 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The win sees Iran consolidate their place at the top of the group with six points from two matches. They thumped United Arab Emirtes 9-0 in their first group outing Oct 15.<\/p>\n<p>India next face hosts Bangladesh Oct 19 while Iran play against Jordan Oct 21.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The girls played well. But Iran were too good in the second half. I believe we can come back as this is just our first game. We need to keep focus for 90 minutes in the next game,&#8221; Maymol Rocky, India head coach, said after the match.<\/p>\n<p>Iran coach said Shadi Mahini said she made her team aware of India&#8217;s weakness and credit must go to the players for exploiting that weakness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spoke to my girls at halftime and told them India&#8217;s weakness. &#8220;We were tired in the first half but I am glad girls kept that aside and played so well in the second,&#8221; she said.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>zeenews.india &#8211; Dhaka,\u00a0 The Under-16 Indian women&#8217;s football team, ahead by a solitary goal for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news"],"views":7173,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19436","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=19436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}