{"id":29165,"date":"2017-09-22T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T22:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29165"},"modified":"2017-09-22T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T22:38:13","slug":"iran-books-ticket-to-afc-u-16-championship-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/09\/22\/iran-books-ticket-to-afc-u-16-championship-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran books ticket to AFC U-16 Championship 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KARAJ, <strong>Iran powered its way into the AFC U-16 Championship 2018 Malaysia after a 2-1 win over 10-man Afghanistan in a Group C tie at the Enghelab Stadium on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran went ahead in the 26th minute through Mahdi Seyedi.<\/p>\n<p>Amir Jafari added the second for Iran in the 69th minute as Afghanistan struggled to find a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s Esmatullah Kazimi was sent off in the 85th minute for a second yellow card.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Amin Nezami put a goal back for Afghanistan from the penalty spot in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>The win means Iran \u2013 who is on nine points &#8211; is assured of top spot irrespective of what happens in its final match against Kyrgyz Republic on Sunday as only Afghanistan can achieve nine points, the-AFC.com wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 AFC U-16 Championship will take place in Malaysia between 20 September and 7 October 2018.<\/p>\n<p> A total of 16 teams will play in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KARAJ, Iran powered its way into the AFC U-16 Championship 2018 Malaysia after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,137,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u16","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":3136,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29165","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=29165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}