{"id":43963,"date":"2021-10-24T05:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T12:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43963"},"modified":"2021-10-24T05:35:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T12:35:39","slug":"our-main-goal-is-to-qualify-for-paris-2024-mahdavikia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/10\/24\/our-main-goal-is-to-qualify-for-paris-2024-mahdavikia\/","title":{"rendered":"Our main goal is to qualify for Paris 2024: Mahdavikia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUSHANBE, <strong>Iran U23 football team coach Mehdi Mahdavikia says that they are ready for the 2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup qualification but their main goal is booking a place in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will kick off the qualification on Monday against Nepal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are well-prepared for the competition and hope to show a good performance but our main goal is to book a place in Paris 2024,\u201d Mahdavikia said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTajikistan\u2019s match can help us to prepare for the Olympics. We want to participate at the Olympics after 48 years with a long-term plan,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur main opponent in Dushanbe is Tajikistan but we respect Nepal and Lebanon as well. There is no easy team in football. We have not invited our foreign-based players for this competition,\u201d the former Iran winger went on to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0The 2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup qualification is being held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan from Oct. 23 to 31. Iran is pitted against host Tajikistan, Nepal, and Lebanon in Group B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 16 teams will qualify to play in the final tournament, including Uzbekistan as hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUSHANBE, Iran U23 football team coach Mehdi Mahdavikia says that they are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,92,139,156,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43963","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-olympics","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1272,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43963","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=43963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43967,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43963\/revisions\/43967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}