{"id":35842,"date":"2019-03-23T18:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T01:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35842"},"modified":"2019-03-23T18:37:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T01:37:54","slug":"iran-deserved-victory-over-turkmenistan-zlatko-kranjcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/23\/iran-deserved-victory-over-turkmenistan-zlatko-kranjcar\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran deserved victory over Turkmenistan: Zlatko Kranjcar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran U-23 coach Zlatko Kranjcar is very happy for beating Turkmenistan at the AFC U-23 Championship Thailand 2020 Qualifiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Iran beat Turkmenistan 3-1 in Group C of the AFC U23 Championship Thailand 2020 Qualifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am very happy with our win because I think the first step always is the toughest,\u201d Kranjcar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe deserved to win this match and should continue our good run in the competition,\u201d the Croatian coach added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will meet Yemen and Iraq on Sunday and Tuesday, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Qualifiers will see 43 teams jostling for 15 spots to next January&#8217;s Finals, which will also serve as the qualifying round for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Japan having confirmed its Olympic berth by virtue of being the host, three spots will be up for grabs in the AFC U-23 Championship Thailand 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran has not qualified for the Olympic Games since 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran U-23 coach Zlatko Kranjcar is very happy for beating Turkmenistan at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35842","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":863,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35842","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=35842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35844,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35842\/revisions\/35844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}