{"id":38267,"date":"2019-12-29T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T20:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38267"},"modified":"2019-12-29T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T20:47:33","slug":"we-learned-from-qatar-match-hamid-estili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/12\/29\/we-learned-from-qatar-match-hamid-estili\/","title":{"rendered":"We learned from Qatar match: Hamid Estili"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran U23 football team coach Hamid Estili says that they learned from friendly match against Qatar.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reza Shekari and Mehdi Ghaedi scored for Iran in the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qatar turned the 2-0 deficit to draw 2-2, thanks to a brace from Abdulrasheed Umaru Ibrahim in the final minutes of the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a good test and Qatar match gave us the chance to evaluate our team for the competition. We wanted to prepare for the Uzbekistan match,\u201d Estili said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe match against Qatar was very important to us because we wanted to practice style of attacking and defensive football,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwo Qatar players were sent off but we let them to stay onto the field because we wanted to test our team in the equal conditions,\u201d Estili concluded. &nbsp;<\/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, Iran U23 football team coach Hamid Estili says that they learned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,92,139,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38267","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-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":646,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38267","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=38267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38269,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38267\/revisions\/38269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}