{"id":27506,"date":"2017-03-15T17:48:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T00:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27506"},"modified":"2017-03-15T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T00:48:21","slug":"asian-sides-learn-fifa-u-20-world-cup-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/15\/asian-sides-learn-fifa-u-20-world-cup-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian sides learn FIFA U-20 World Cup opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; SUWON, <strong>Asian sides learned their FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017 opponents on Wednesday following the tournament&#8217;s official draw in Suwon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asia will have five teams flying the continent&#8217;s flag at the global extravaganza &#8211; Japan, Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Vietnam who all qualified thanks to their top four finishes at last year&#8217;s AFC U-19 Championship, while Korea Republic will appear as hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Korea Republic will meet Guinea, who return after a 38-year absence from the tournament, six-time FIFA U-20 champions Argentina, as well as England in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>In Group C, Iran will come up against African champions Zambia, Portugal and Costa Rica, who have qualified nine times.  <\/p>\n<p>Reigning 2016 AFC U-19 champions Japan will face South Africa, Italy and CONMEBOL champions Uruguay in Group D.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam will have their work out to progess from Group E where they have France, Honduras and recently crowned Oceania Football Confederation champions New Zealand for company.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, AFC U-19 Championship runners-up Saudi Arabia are grouped with Ecuador, USA who will be making their maiden appearance, and Senegal in Group F.  <\/p>\n<p>The competition is set to get underway on May 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FIFA U-20 World Cup groups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group A<br \/>\nA1 Korea Republic, A2 Guinea, A3 Argentina, A4 England<\/p>\n<p>Group B:<br \/>\nB1 Venezuela, B2 Germany, B3 Vanuatu, B4 Mexico<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group C:<br \/>\nC1 Zambia,  C2 Portugal, C3 IR Iran, C4 Costa Rica<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group D:<br \/>\nD1 South Africa, D2 Japan, D3 Italy, D4 Uruguay<\/p>\n<p>Group E:<br \/>\nE1 France, E2 Honduras , E3 Vietnam, E4 New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>Group F:<br \/>\nF1 Ecuador, F2 USA , F3 Saudi Arabia, F4 Senegal<\/p>\n<p>Photo: FIFA.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; SUWON, Asian sides learned their FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017 opponents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,140,86,1,110,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-u19","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized","category-world-cup","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":5367,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27506","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=27506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}