{"id":37296,"date":"2019-08-15T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T02:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37296"},"modified":"2019-08-15T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T02:48:14","slug":"iran-claim-cafa-u19-championship-2019-title-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/08\/15\/iran-claim-cafa-u19-championship-2019-title-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran claim CAFA U19 Championship 2019 title [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUSHANBE, <strong>Iran U19 football team became the champions of the second edition of the Central Asian Football Association\u2019s (CAFA) on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Persians were held to a 1-1 draw by hosts Tajikistan and won the title with 10 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tajikistan came second with eight points and Uzbekistan finished in third place with five points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sirous Pourmousavi\u2019s team had already defeated Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan in the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of five nations took part in a round-robin tournament that was held in Dushanbe from August 9 to August 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uzbekistan won the first edition of the CAFA junior tournament having defeated Kyrgyz Republic 1-0 in the final held in Tashkent in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CAFA championship acted as a prelude to the AFC U19 Championship 2020 Qualifiers which will begin in November 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosts Tajikistan had emerged as the winners of the CAFA U16 Championship 2019 held earlier this month.<\/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\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0422\u041e\u04b6\u0418\u041a\u0418\u0421\u0422\u041e\u041d U-19 - \u042d\u0440\u043e\u043d U-19. \u0428\u0430\u0440\u04b3\u0438 \u0431\u043e\u0437\u04e3. \u0427\u0435\u043c\u043f\u0438\u043e\u043d\u0430\u0442\u0438 CAFA.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fL5fLC5ijQ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUSHANBE, Iran U19 football team became the champions of the second edition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,140,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37296","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-iran-u19","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1061,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37296","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=37296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37298,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37296\/revisions\/37298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}