{"id":23640,"date":"2015-12-23T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23640"},"modified":"2015-12-23T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:33:07","slug":"iran-u-23-football-team-refuses-friendly-with-dpr-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/12\/23\/iran-u-23-football-team-refuses-friendly-with-dpr-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran U-23 Football Team refuses friendly with DPR Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran U-23 football team refused an offer from DPR Korea\u2019s federation for a friendly match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian U-23 players are not allowed to take part in the friendly since they have to play for their clubs in the domestic league (IPL) on December 31.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly match against Vietnam in early January in the UAE had already been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn in Group A of the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship, which will be held in Doha, Qatar from January 12 to 30.<\/p>\n<p>The team will open the event with a match against Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Host Qatar and China are in the group as well.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will serve as the 2016 Olympic qualifier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran U-23 football team refused an offer from DPR Korea\u2019s federation for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":23169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,139,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1742,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640","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=23640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}