{"id":37894,"date":"2019-11-06T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37894"},"modified":"2019-11-06T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T01:31:08","slug":"afc-u-19-championship-qualifiers-islamic-republic-of-iran-cruise-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/11\/06\/afc-u-19-championship-qualifiers-islamic-republic-of-iran-cruise-to-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC U-19 Championship Qualifiers: Islamic Republic of Iran cruise to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran made a positive start to their AFC U-19 Championship Uzbekistan 2020 Group D qualifying campaign following a 3-0 victory over Kyrgyz Republic at the PAS Stadium on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Islamic Republic of Iran 3-0 Kyrgyz Republic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both teams tried their best to score but neither could find the opener as the score remained 0-0 at half-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four-time champions IR Iran, however, laid down the marker in 53rd minute through Aria Barzegar&#8217;s header at the far post as he finished off Ahmad Reza Jalali&#8217;s delivery from the left flank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal spurred Seyyed Akbar Mousavi&#8217;s side to push forward as they dominated the game and their persistence paid off in the 78th minute when Alireza Monazami rose highest to head home Iran&#8217;s second goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yasin Salmani then ended the proceedings with his penalty strike in the 82nd minute to seal the points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran play Nepal on Friday while Kyrgyz Republic will aim to revive their hopes against the UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/img\/image\/upload\/t_l7\/v1573055176\/eza9kf0w46mx5sql51at.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tajikistan have already qualified as Group C winners while Group G kicked off on Saturday. Group A of the Qualifiers &#8211; featuring Iraq, Oman, Palestine, Kuwait and Pakistan &#8211; has been postponed with new dates to be announced in due course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 11 group winners and four best runners-up will join hosts Uzbekistan in the 2020 Finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should Uzbekistan finish either top of Group F of the Qualifiers or are among the best four second-placed teams, the fifth best runners-up will qualify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Islamic Republic of Iran made a positive start to their AFC U-19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37895,"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-37894","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":591,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37894","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=37894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37896,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37894\/revisions\/37896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}