{"id":43944,"date":"2021-10-23T09:33:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T16:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43944"},"modified":"2021-10-23T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T16:33:49","slug":"afc-u-23-asian-cup-2022-qualifiers-irans-sadeghi-among-ones-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/10\/23\/afc-u-23-asian-cup-2022-qualifiers-irans-sadeghi-among-ones-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC U-23 Asian Cup 2022 Qualifiers: Iran&#8217;s Sadeghi among &#8216;Ones to Watch&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran midfielder Amirali Sadeghi is among the <\/strong>&#8216;<strong>Ones to Watch&#8217; at the AFC U23 Asian Cup 2022 Qualifiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The campaign kicked off on Saturday with 39 teams from across the continent battling it out for the 15 remaining places at the tournament in Uzbekistan next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As ever, some of Asia\u2019s finest young talent will be on display in the 11 qualifying groups, and the-AFC.com has identified some of the key players to look out for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having impressed at Saipa in the Iranian Pro League last season, Sadeghi was snapped up by Tehran&#8217;s Esteghlal in September as he was given the chance to continue his development at one of Iran\u2019s biggest clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadeghi was twice a top scorer in the Iranian youth league and will hope to show the Azadi Stadium side\u2019s passionate support his capabilities upon returning from international duty for the U-23s in Dushanbe.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran midfielder Amirali Sadeghi is among the &#8216;Ones to Watch&#8217; at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,175,84,92,139,93,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-irans-u23","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1216,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43944","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=43944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43946,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43944\/revisions\/43946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}