{"id":31593,"date":"2018-04-26T19:57:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T02:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31593"},"modified":"2018-04-26T19:57:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T02:57:42","slug":"afc-u-16-championship-asias-future-stars-to-shine-in-malaysia-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/26\/afc-u-16-championship-asias-future-stars-to-shine-in-malaysia-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC U-16 Championship: Asia\u2019s future stars to shine in Malaysia 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR,<strong> AFC U-16 Championship 2018 hosts Malaysia and Asia\u2019s 15 best teams learnt their opponents on Thursday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The draw, conducted at the AFC House, saw Malaysia, quarter-finalists in 2014, drawn in Group A with two-time champions Japan, 1998 winners Thailand and Tajikistan.<\/p>\n<p>Group B has two-time champions DPR Korea with Oman, winners in 1996 and 2000, Yemen and Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>Islamic Republic of Iran, the 2016 runners-up, will continue their pursuit of a first title, having drawn Vietnam, India and Indonesia in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champions Iraq will look to make history by being the first team to win back-to-back titles as they face Australia, Korea Republic &#8211; who won the Championship in 1986 and 2002 &#8211; and tournament debutants Afghanistan in Group D.<\/p>\n<p>Asian Football Confederation General Secretary Dato\u2019 Windsor John emphasised the importance of the tournament in developing young players, saying: \u201cThe AFC U-16 Championship has a long and proud history, and the last edition in India was not only a huge success on the field, but it is also regarded as a defining moment for football and youth development in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 16 best teams will compete for the title in September, and the added bonus is that the top four teams will represent Asia in the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2019, which will be held in Peru.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AFC U-16 Championship represents the foundation of the AFC\u2019s vision and mission, which sets the objective to provide support for our teams and allow them to succeed on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank this year\u2019s hosts, the Football Association of Malaysia, and I am sure we will witness a memorable Championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AFC U-16 Championship Malaysia is on September 20 &#8211; October 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, AFC U-16 Championship 2018 hosts Malaysia and Asia\u2019s 15 best teams&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,137,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u16","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1540,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31593","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=31593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31596,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31593\/revisions\/31596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}