{"id":26488,"date":"2016-11-10T12:46:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T20:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26488"},"modified":"2016-11-10T12:46:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T20:46:35","slug":"iran-edges-nigeria-at-u-19-football-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/11\/10\/iran-edges-nigeria-at-u-19-football-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran edges Nigeria at U-19 Football Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SEOUL, <strong>Iran defeated Nigeria 1-0 in the U-19 Football Tournament 2016 in South Korea on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reza Shekari scored Iran\u2019s sole goal in the 78th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Amirhossein Peyrovani\u2019s boys had lost to South Korea 3-1 in their opening match.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will face England on Saturday in its last match.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament has brought four teams namely, South Korea, Iran, Nigeria and England together.<\/p>\n<p>The four-a-side competition is part of the teams\u2019 preparation for the FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has already booked a place in the competition along with Japan, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam after advancing to the AFC U-19 Championship semi-final in Bahrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SEOUL, Iran defeated Nigeria 1-0 in the U-19 Football Tournament 2016 in South&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,140,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-iran-u19","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1554,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26488","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=26488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}