{"id":20981,"date":"2015-03-29T08:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T15:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20981"},"modified":"2015-03-29T10:34:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T17:34:04","slug":"iran-thrash-afghanistan-in-u-23-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/03\/29\/iran-thrash-afghanistan-in-u-23-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Thrash Afghanistan in U-23 Qualifier [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran thrashed Afghanistan 6-0 in a u-23 Asian Championship qualifier in Tehran&#8217;s Azadi stadium on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In front of 80,000, mostly Afghan immigrant, fans, Iran achieved a clear victory thanks to a brace from Sardar Azmoun and further goals from Mohammad Moradmand, Milad Kamandani, Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Roozbeh Cheshmi.<\/p>\n<p>While Afghanistan, like Palestine and Nepal, are already eliminated, Iran top the group with nine points out of three games and a 14-0 goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>Second placed is Iran&#8217;s next opposition (Tuesday), Saudi Arabia, with seven points.<\/p>\n<p>The top team will automatically qualify for the 2016 u-23 Asian Championship in Qatar, which will also be the Olympic qualifiying.<\/p>\n<p>The second placed team will be ranked against the other nine second placed teams of this qualification round and also qualify, if among the top five.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Walx3YXani4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Walx3YXani4<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran thrashed Afghanistan 6-0 in a u-23 Asian Championship qualifier in Tehran&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":20985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,139,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":3110,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20981","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=20981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}