{"id":36915,"date":"2019-07-04T18:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T01:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36915"},"modified":"2019-07-04T18:37:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T01:37:54","slug":"iran-u-23-to-play-croatia-in-late-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/07\/04\/iran-u-23-to-play-croatia-in-late-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran U-23 to play Croatia in late October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran U-23 football team will play two friendly matches with Croatia during the last weekend of October.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamid Estili, technical manager of the team, has confirmed the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farhad Majidi\u2019s team is preparing for the 2020 AFC U-23 Championship which will be held in Thailand from January 8 to 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition will act as the AFC qualifiers for the Olympic football tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics men\u2019s football tournament in Japan as the AFC representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran has not qualified for the Olympics since the 1976 games in Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran U-23 football team will play two friendly matches with Croatia during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,139,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36915","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-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":609,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36915","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=36915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36917,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36915\/revisions\/36917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}