{"id":26748,"date":"2016-12-21T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26748"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:22:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T22:22:43","slug":"iran-u17-discovers-valentin-granatkin-memorial-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/12\/21\/iran-u17-discovers-valentin-granatkin-memorial-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran U17 discovers Valentin Granatkin Memorial rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG, <strong>Iran U-17 football team has been drawn in Group D of the Valentin Granatkin Memorial International Football Tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group D consists of Saint Petersburg, Iran, Moldova and Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play Saint Petersburg in its opening match on January 9.  <\/p>\n<p>Tajikistan, Greece, Bulgaria, Estonia are in Group A.<\/p>\n<p> Host Russia has been drawn in Group B along with Latvia, Belarus, and India.<\/p>\n<p>Group C consists of Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Slovakia, and Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>The international tournament will be held in Saint Petersburg, Russia from January 8-21, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The International youth football tournament was initiated by the FIFA President Joao Havelange for the first time in 1981 in Moscow. Valentin Granatkin was the FIFA first vice-president and passed away on November 2, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Granatkin tournament always is a place of discoveries. Memorial was a first loud word from the future stars of world football \u2013 Andreas Moeller, Oliver Bierhoff, Kirsten Janker, Marcel David Desailly, Igor Kolyvanov and Alexandr Mostovoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG, Iran U-17 football team has been drawn in Group D&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-uncategorized","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2344,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26748","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=26748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}