{"id":26485,"date":"2016-11-08T12:50:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26485"},"modified":"2016-11-08T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T21:01:38","slug":"junior-iranian-footballers-off-to-south-korea-for-u19-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/11\/08\/junior-iranian-footballers-off-to-south-korea-for-u19-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Iranian footballers off to South Korea for U19 Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>National Iranian junior football squad has left Tehran for Seoul to take part at South Korea\u2019s U-19 Football Tournament 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tournament marks a preparatory stage for the FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017 and will be attended by South Korea, Nigeria and England.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Iran cruised to AFC U-19 Championship semifinals and got tickets to next year\u2019s FIFA U-20 World Cup, the Iranian squad, comprising 18 players, was deployed to South Korea on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Iranians are scheduled to take on the host country team on November 18 in their opening encounter at the tournament to be held during November 18-20, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup will be the 21st edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, the biennial international men&#8217;s youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since its inception in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will be hosted by South Korea between 20 May and 11 June 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News &#8211; TEHRAN, National Iranian junior football squad has left Tehran for Seoul to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,140,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26485","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":1712,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26485","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=26485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}