{"id":26508,"date":"2016-11-12T16:31:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T00:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26508"},"modified":"2016-11-12T16:31:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T00:31:05","slug":"iran-finishes-3rd-at-continental-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/11\/12\/iran-finishes-3rd-at-continental-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran finishes 3rd at Continental Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SEOUL, <strong>Iran U-19 football team lost to England U-20 team 4-1 in its final match of the Continental Cup on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea striker Dominic Solanke grabbed a brace in the 51st and 76th minutes while Newcastle striker Adam Armstrong (32nd minute) and Isaiah Brown (68th minute) scored each for England.<\/p>\n<p>Reza Jafari was on target in 54th minute for the Iranian team at the Suwon World Cup Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Iran was defeated against host South Korea 3-1 in the first match and beat Nigeria 1-0 in its following match.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team came third in the four-a-side tournament while the victory was enough to guarantee England second spot in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea will claim the Continental Cup title with a draw against Nigeria on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Iran took part in the competition as part of its preparation for the U20s World Cup in South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SEOUL, Iran U-19 football team lost to England U-20 team 4-1 in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,140,86,110,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-u19","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1762,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26508","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=26508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26508\/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=26508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}