{"id":38231,"date":"2019-12-27T10:52:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T18:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38231"},"modified":"2019-12-27T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T18:52:25","slug":"iran-to-meet-qatar-in-2nd-friendly-ahead-of-afc-u-23-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/12\/27\/iran-to-meet-qatar-in-2nd-friendly-ahead-of-afc-u-23-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to meet Qatar in 2nd friendly ahead of AFC U-23 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran U-23 football team will play Qatar in a friendly match at the Doha\u2019s Olympic Stadium on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match will be the last warm-up game for Hamid Estili\u2019s side ahead of the AFC U-23 Championship Thailand 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 22, Iran lost to Qatar 2-1 in a friendly match held in Doha\u2019s Lusail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran is paired in Group C of Thailand 2020 alongside China PR as well as South Korea and the defending champion Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young Team Melli will open the campaign with a match against Uzbekistan on January 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand 2020 also serves as qualification to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where the top three teams, aside from host nation Japan, will represent Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Iran U-23 football team will play Qatar in a friendly match at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38231","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-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":400,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38231","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=38231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38233,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38231\/revisions\/38233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}