{"id":26060,"date":"2016-09-12T14:52:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T21:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26060"},"modified":"2016-09-12T14:52:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T21:52:31","slug":"iran-u-20-loses-to-mexico-u-20-in-china-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/09\/12\/iran-u-20-loses-to-mexico-u-20-in-china-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran U-20 loses to Mexico U-20 in China tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; QUJING, <strong>Iran national under-20 football team, more commonly known as Javanan, has sustained a loss at the &#8220;Chang&#8217;an Ford Cup&#8221; CFA International Youth Football Tournament Qujing 2016 in China, going down to the Mexican side.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Iranian squad, which had defeated the hosts 4-2 in its opening match on September 9, lost 0-2 to the Central American outfit at the end of a game played in the southwestern Chinese city of Qujing.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Chang&#8217;an Ford Cup&#8221; CFA International Youth Football Tournament Qujing 2016 started on September 7, and will finish on September 15.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament has attracted national under-20 football teams from China, Iran, Kazakhstan and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Javanan is preparing for the 2016 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-19 Championship, which is scheduled to be held between October 13 and 30 in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom of Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Republic of Iran is drawn in Group C of the group stage of the forthcoming sports event, and is pitted against defending champion Qatar, Asian powerhouse Japan and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts are drawn in Group A, and have joined 2012 champion South Korea as well as Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Group B constitutes of 2014 runner-up North Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Vietnam. Australia, China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form Group D.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 AFC U-19 Championship acts as the AFC qualifier for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea, with the top four teams qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Since South Korea has already qualified automatically as the AFC U-19 Championship host, the fifth-placed team will also qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup if the South Korean team finishes in the top four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; QUJING, Iran national under-20 football team, more commonly known as Javanan, has sustained&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,140,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-u19","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2066,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26060","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=26060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}