{"id":33499,"date":"2018-09-18T20:47:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T03:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33499"},"modified":"2018-09-18T20:52:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T03:52:25","slug":"afc-u-16-championship-group-c-know-your-teams-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/09\/18\/afc-u-16-championship-group-c-know-your-teams-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC U-16 Championship &#8211; Group C: Know your teams: Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The Continent&#8217;s future stars will showcase their budding skills in the AFC U-16 Championship 2018 Malaysia over the next fortnight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It promises to be a sizzling affair as the 16 teams chase Continental glory as well as four berths to the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru.<\/p>\n<p>Join the-AFC.com as we take a look at Iran as they vie for glory in Group C.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IR Iran<br \/>\nPrevious Appearances:<\/strong> 10<br \/>\n<strong>Previous Best:<\/strong> Champions 2008<\/p>\n<p>Islamic Republic of Iran are one of the Continent&#8217;s most successful nations but have only won the AFC U-16 Championship once. They came close to winning again in 2016 but were denied by Iraq in the final, a defeat that was made even more painful by the fact that they lost on penalties but one which will surely push them to achieve glory in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fixtures<\/strong><br \/>\nSeptember 21<br \/>\nIR Iran v Indonesia<br \/>\nVietnam v India<\/p>\n<p>September 24<br \/>\nIndia v IR Iran<br \/>\nIndonesia v Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>September 27<br \/>\nIR Iran v Vietnam<br \/>\nIndia v Indonesia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The Continent&#8217;s future stars will showcase their budding skills in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1109,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33499","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=33499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33500,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33499\/revisions\/33500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}