{"id":37454,"date":"2019-09-07T11:54:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T18:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37454"},"modified":"2019-09-07T11:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T18:58:20","slug":"majidi-satisfied-after-friendly-loss-against-uzbekistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/09\/07\/majidi-satisfied-after-friendly-loss-against-uzbekistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Majidi&#8217;s Team Melli Omid lose first friendly against Uzbekistan [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; OLMALIQ, \u00a0<strong>Iran U23 football coach Farhad Majidi says that the friendly match against Uzbekistan helped them to identify their weak spots.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran suffered a 1-0 loss to Uzbekistan Friday night at the Metallurg Stadium in Olmaliq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Majidi\u2019s boys will meet Uzbekistan once again on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwo teams showed a good football. In the first half, two teams were in the same level. Our players made many mistakes in the second half and we conceded a goal. I hope we will have a better performance in the next match,\u201d Majidi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe warm-up matches are the best opportunity for us to identify our weak spots. Uzbekistan are a physically really good team. This match was very important for us because we fielded our substitutes to know them well,\u201d he added. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran prepare for the 2020 AFC U23 Championship Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition will be held in Thailand from Jan. 8 to 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top three teams qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in July, although should Japan emerge as one of them, the fourth-placed side will advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, a powerhouse of the Asian football, have not been in the Olympics since the 1976 games in Munich.<\/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=ZKY6LETylFk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; OLMALIQ, \u00a0Iran U23 football coach Farhad Majidi says that the friendly match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,92,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1241,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37454","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=37454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37457,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37454\/revisions\/37457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}