{"id":25958,"date":"2016-08-29T15:08:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T22:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25958"},"modified":"2016-08-29T15:08:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T22:08:32","slug":"iran-defeats-kyrgyzstan-9-0-in-afc-u-16-womens-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/08\/29\/iran-defeats-kyrgyzstan-9-0-in-afc-u-16-womens-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran defeats Kyrgyzstan 9-0 in AFC U-16 Women&#8217;s Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; BANGKOK, <strong>Iran\u2019s national under-16 football team has thrashed Kyrgyzstan in its second showdown at the preliminary round of Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-16 Women&#8217;s Championship 2017 Qualifiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Iranian squad, which had sustained a 3-0 defeated against Bangladesh two days earlier, routed the Kyrgyz contingent 9-0 in a Group C game staged at Bangabandhu National Stadium in the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranians started the match vigorously, and asserted their dominance from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>It was in the 18th minute that forward Fatemeh Ghasemi grasped a fine opportunity and placed the ball at the back of the Central Asians\u2019 net to open up the scoring for the Persians.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder Maral Torkaman doubled Iran\u2019s lead eight minutes later, and Fatemeh Makhdoumi scored the third goal for Iran in the 42nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Roghayeh Jalal Nasab netted the fourth goal of the day for the national Iran under-16 football team two minutes into the injury time.<\/p>\n<p>After the interval, Iranians continued to exert pressure on Kyrgyzstan\u2019s net, and Ghasemi scored a brace in the 54th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Ghasemi was on the target in the 71st and 80th minute and made it 6-0 for the Iranian outfit.<\/p>\n<p>Another goal by Makhdoumi in the 85th minute and Ghasemi\u2019s fifth goal two minutes later took the score to 9-0.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s national under-16 football team is pitted against Chinese Taipei, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Kyrgyzstan and Singapore in Group C of the AFC U-16 Women&#8217;s Championship 2017 Qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand, Myanmar, Jordan, Guam and Laos form Group A. Group B consists of South Korea, India, the Philippines, Malaysia and Northern Mariana Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan, Australia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Palestine and Iraq are drawn in Group D.<\/p>\n<p>Each group will play a one-round league. The winner from each group (total four teams) will qualify to the finals (eight teams in total).<\/p>\n<p>If Thailand finish top of their group in the qualifiers, the second-placed team from the same group will also qualify to the final competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; BANGKOK, Iran\u2019s national under-16 football team has thrashed Kyrgyzstan in its second showdown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,137,155,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u16","category-womens","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1779,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958","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=25958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}