{"id":32656,"date":"2018-07-05T21:13:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T04:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32656"},"modified":"2018-07-05T21:13:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T04:13:20","slug":"asian-games-2018-iran-u-23-drawn-into-group-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/07\/05\/asian-games-2018-iran-u-23-drawn-into-group-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2018: Iran U-23 drawn into Group F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; JAKARTA, <strong>Iran has been drawn in Group F of men&#8217;s football at the 2018 Indonesia Asian Games.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team has been pitted against DPR Korea, Saudi Arabia and Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>Host Indonesia, meanwhile, drew Hong Kong, Laos and Chinese Taipei in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>Group B has Thailand, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh and Qatar, while Group C will see 2014 bronze medalist Iraq, China PR, Timor-Leste and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Japan was the seeded team in Group D and they were drawn with Vietnam, Pakistan and Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Korea Republic will face Bahrain, Kyrgyz Republic and Malaysia in Group E.<\/p>\n<p>The U-23 tournament, which allows each country to field three overage players, will see 24 teams vying for honors.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams in each group along with the four best 3rd placed teams will advance to the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Croatian coach Zlatko Kranjcar will lead Team Melli Omid during the men&#8217;s football tournament which will be contested on August 14 to September 1 in Jakarta and Palembang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; JAKARTA, Iran has been drawn in Group F of men&#8217;s football at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1257,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656","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=32656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32658,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656\/revisions\/32658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}