{"id":35836,"date":"2019-03-22T14:53:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T21:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35836"},"modified":"2019-03-22T19:18:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T02:18:16","slug":"iran-start-afc-u23-championship-thailand-2020-qualifiers-on-high-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/22\/iran-start-afc-u23-championship-thailand-2020-qualifiers-on-high-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran start AFC U23 Championship Thailand 2020 Qualifiers on high note [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN \u2013<strong> Iran beat Central Asian team Turkmenistan 3-1 at the AFC U23 Championship Thailand 2020 Qualifiers on Friday. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A first half own-goal proved to be costly for Turkmenistan, as Iran turned on the power in the second half at the Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match between the two Central Asian \nteams was equal at best in the opening minutes and a goalless stalemate \nwas set in place until the 35th minute when a defensive error from \nShazada Bashimov gave the Iranians the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran&#8217;s senior team is Asia&#8217;s top ranked \nteam, and the U23 side were aiming to emulate their prowess, and in the \nsecond half, they doubled their lead through captain Omid Noorafkan&#8217;s \neffort on 54 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A comeback for Turkmenistan was not very far off when Bagtyyar Gurgenov found the back of the net to reduce their deficit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, as the match went into added \ntime, it was Iran who came out on top with substitute Reza Jabireh \nscoring the final goal of the night to secure a good start to their \nqualifying campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will play Yemen and Iraq on Sunday and Tuesday, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mt-f9apgI5w\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN \u2013 Iran beat Central Asian team Turkmenistan 3-1 at the AFC U23&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35836","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"],"views":1366,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35836","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35840,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35836\/revisions\/35840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}