{"id":20786,"date":"2015-03-15T05:19:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T12:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20786"},"modified":"2015-03-19T13:46:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:46:46","slug":"iran-olympic-football-team-edges-past-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/03\/15\/iran-olympic-football-team-edges-past-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Olympic football team edges past Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUWAIT CITY, <strong>Iran Olympic football team defeated Kuwait 1-0 in a friendly match in Kuwait City on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Behnam Barzay scored the only goal of the match for the visiting team in the 34th minute after Arsalan Motahari was fouled in the penalty area.<\/p>\n<p>Iran reduced to ten men when Majid Hosseini received his second yellow card after a harsh foul on Kuwaiti striker.<\/p>\n<p>Seven minutes later Kuwaiti, midfielder was sent off with a straight red card after a foul on Ali Karimi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were the better side in the whole 90 minutes and fortunately we won. I hope we can get good results in the upcoming games and make Iranian fans happy,\u201d Mohammad Khakpour said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn in Group C of the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship alongside Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Nepal and Palestine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUWAIT CITY, Iran Olympic football team defeated Kuwait 1-0 in a friendly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":20798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,139,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":3499,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20786","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}