{"id":34714,"date":"2018-12-29T19:53:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T03:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34714"},"modified":"2018-12-29T19:53:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T03:53:44","slug":"iran-u-23-football-to-participate-in-dohas-quartet-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/29\/iran-u-23-football-to-participate-in-dohas-quartet-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran U-23 football to participate in Doha\u2019s quartet tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mehr News &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Olympic teams of Qatar, Kuwaiti, and Tajikistan are the three other teams which will compete in the tournament, starting on January 15 in Doha.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initial reports had mentioned the possibility of China\u2019s participation in the event as well but eventually, Tajikistan seems to have been replaced the East Asian team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian team, which is called \u2018Team Omid\u2019 [hope] in the country, is doing preparations for the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship qualification which also serves as the first stage of the AFC qualifiers for the 2020 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team is pitted in Group C of the qualification round along with Iraq, Turkmenistan, and Yemen. All matches of this group will be held from March 22 to 26, 2019, in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>44 team in 11 groups compete in the qualification round. The first team of each group will take berth to the AFC U-23 Championship which will be held in January 2020 in Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News &#8211; TEHRAN, Olympic teams of Qatar, Kuwaiti, and Tajikistan are the three other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34714","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":443,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34714","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=34714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34716,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34714\/revisions\/34716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}