{"id":19461,"date":"2014-10-25T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T18:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19461"},"modified":"2014-10-25T14:06:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T21:06:34","slug":"iran-u16-women-emerge-group-b-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/10\/25\/iran-u16-women-emerge-group-b-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran U16 women emerge Group B champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes,\u00a0Dhaka &#8211; <strong>Iran U-16 women&#8217;s team emerged as the unbeaten group B champions in the Qualifiers to play in the final round of the AFC U-16 Women&#8217;s Championship beating Bangladesh by 2-1 goals in their last match at Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city Thursday, reports UNB.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran qualified as the third team for the final round to be held in Wuhan, China, in November next year.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Chinese Taipei and Korea Republic qualified from their respective groups for the eight-nation competition while defending champions Japan, DPR Korea, China and Thailand are direct entrants having finished in the top four in the last edition.<\/p>\n<p>The champions and the runners-up in Wuhan will fly the Asian flag at the FIFA U-17 Women&#8217;s World Cup 2016 in Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>In the day&#8217;s match, Bangladesh took the lead in the 16th minute as Sanjida Akhter floated a free kick in the middle of the box and the Iranian defence failed to clear the ball, unmarked Lipi Akhter slotted the ball into the far post with a left footer. Bangladesh dominated the first half 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Iran levelled the margin in the 60th minute when skipper Fatemeh Geraeli headed a Fatemeh Huseini corner into the middle of the post (1-1).<\/p>\n<p>Iran sealed the win in the 70th minute after defender Nargis Khatun fouled Fatemeh Ghashemi inside the box and the referee awarded a penalty. Fatemeh Ghashemi converted the spot kick to lead 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>With the day\u2019s result, Iran secured the top slot in the qualifying round with 12 points while India finished runners-up securing nine points. In the day&#8217;s first match, India beat Jordan 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Host Bangladesh finished third with six points while Jordan earned three points and UAE lost all their four matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes,\u00a0Dhaka &#8211; Iran U-16 women&#8217;s team emerged as the unbeaten group B champions in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,137,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u16","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":3927,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19461","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=19461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}