{"id":43710,"date":"2021-10-01T06:56:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T13:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43710"},"modified":"2021-10-01T06:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T13:56:18","slug":"afc-lauds-iran-womens-captain-behnaz-taherkhani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/10\/01\/afc-lauds-iran-womens-captain-behnaz-taherkhani\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC lauds Iran women&#8217;s captain Behnaz Taherkhani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Asian Football Confederation (AFC) lauded Iran women\u2019s football captain Behnaz Taherkhani in the AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup qualifying, for helping the team to book a place at the 2022 AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran was the other big story of this qualifying window, stunning 2018 host Jordan to win Group G on a tie-breaking penalty shootout and reach the Finals for the very first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading the way, in more ways than one, was Iranian captain Behnaz Taherkhani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of the week she converted three penalties \u2013 two in the 5-0 win over Bangladesh, and the crucial first kick in the shootout against Jordan \u2013 proving herself to be a true on-field leader, stepping up in the big moments to help her team to a ground-breaking milestone in the women\u2019s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Asian Football Confederation (AFC) lauded Iran women\u2019s football captain Behnaz Taherkhani&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,91,86,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-womens"],"views":713,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43710","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=43710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43712,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43710\/revisions\/43712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}