{"id":38256,"date":"2019-12-28T09:17:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T17:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38256"},"modified":"2019-12-28T09:31:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T17:31:28","slug":"iran-u23-gives-up-lead-to-draw-qatar-in-friendly-as-thailand-2020-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/12\/28\/iran-u23-gives-up-lead-to-draw-qatar-in-friendly-as-thailand-2020-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran U23 give up two-goal lead to draw Qatar in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Qatar U23 football team came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with Iran U23 on Saturday as part of preparation for the 2020 AFC U23 Championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a friendly match held in Doha, Reza Shekari gave the Persians the lead in the 28th minute from the penalty spot and Mehdi Ghaedi extended Iran\u2019s lead six minutes later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qatar turned the 2-0 deficit to draw 2-2 with visiting Iran. Abdulrasheed Umaru Ibrahim scored twice for Qatar in the 83rd and 90th minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran have been drawn in Group C&nbsp;along with defending champions Uzbekistan, China and South Korea.<\/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 have not been in the Olympics since the 1976 games in Munich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamid Estili\u2019s team will start the campaign on Jan. 9 with a match against Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Qatar U23 football team came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38257,"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-38256","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":680,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38256","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=38256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38262,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38256\/revisions\/38262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}