{"id":38436,"date":"2020-01-15T18:27:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T02:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38436"},"modified":"2020-01-15T18:27:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T02:27:31","slug":"iran-knocked-out-of-afc-u23-championship-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/01\/15\/iran-knocked-out-of-afc-u23-championship-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran knocked out of AFC U23 Championship [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SONGKHLA, <strong>Iran U23 football team failed to bring an end to a 44-year Olympic qualification drought.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After wasting a string of chances, Iran defeated China 1-0 but it wasn\u2019t enough to extend their stay in the competition, with Uzbekistan advancing on goal difference despite their 2-1 loss to Korea Republic in Pathum Thani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Omid Noorafkan scored the solitary goal of the match from the penalty spot in the 87th minute after Mehdi Ghaedi was brought down by China defender in the penalty area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea qualified for the next round with nine points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uzbekistan and Iran earned four points but the titleholders advanced to the quarters on goal difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China stayed at the bottom without a&nbsp;point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top three teams will 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<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#AFCU23 M22 - CHINA PR 0 - 1 ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN  : HIGHLIGHTS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xSeiwN-wbek?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SONGKHLA, Iran U23 football team failed to bring an end to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38437,"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-38436","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":947,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38436","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=38436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38438,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38436\/revisions\/38438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}