{"id":22781,"date":"2015-10-02T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T18:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22781"},"modified":"2015-10-02T11:03:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T18:03:31","slug":"iran-beats-bahrain-2-0-at-waff-u-23-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/10\/02\/iran-beats-bahrain-2-0-at-waff-u-23-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran beats Bahrain 2-0 at WAFF U-23 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran defeated Bahrain 2-0 in Doha, Qatar, at the West Asian U-23 Football Federation (WAFF) Championship on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rouzbeh Cheshmi was on target in the 28th minute and Hossein Fazeli made it 2-0 in the 41st minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team will play Saudi Arabia on Sunday in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we should have been awarded two penalties against Bahrain. I believe that the referee was not good due to lack of concentration,\u201d Iran coach Mohammad Khakpour said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud of my boys. We are here to win the title not for entertainment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>WAFF is being held in Doha, Qatar from September 30 to October 14.<\/p>\n<p>The competition will be used as a warm up for the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship which is also held in Qatar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Iran defeated Bahrain 2-0 in Doha, Qatar, at the West Asian U-23&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":22782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,139,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-irans-u23","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2031,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22781","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}