{"id":37591,"date":"2019-09-26T20:19:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T03:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37591"},"modified":"2019-09-26T20:19:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T03:19:08","slug":"afc-u23-championship-iran-handed-tough-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/09\/26\/afc-u23-championship-iran-handed-tough-group\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC U23 Championship: Iran handed tough group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR,<strong> Iran have been drawn in a tough group at the 2020 AFC U23 Championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farhad Majidi\u2019s team are drawn in Group C along with defending champions Uzbekistan, China and South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fourth edition of the Championship will be played across three cities &#8211; Bangkok, Buriram and Songkhla &#8211; with the tournament kicking off on January 8, and the final to be played on January 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides Continental glory, 15 of the 16 teams will also be competing for places in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where the top three sides will join hosts Japan as Asia&#8217;s representatives next July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosts Thailand have been drawn in Group A and they will have 2013 champions Iraq, Australia and debutants Bahrain to contend with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qatar, third in 2018, 2016 champions Japan, Saudi Arabia &#8211; runners-up in 2013, and Syria are in an exciting looking Group B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vietnam, runners-up in 2018, have DPR Korea, Jordan &#8211; third in 2013 &#8211; and United Arab Emirates for company in Group D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should Japan make the last four stage, the other three semi-finalists will be assured of their places in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran have been drawn in a tough group at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37592,"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-37591","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":1191,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37591","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=37591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37593,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37591\/revisions\/37593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}