{"id":44560,"date":"2021-12-28T08:32:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T16:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=44560"},"modified":"2021-12-28T08:32:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T16:32:15","slug":"afc-womens-asian-cup-maryam-irandoost-aiming-for-knockout-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/12\/28\/afc-womens-asian-cup-maryam-irandoost-aiming-for-knockout-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Women&#8217;s Asian Cup: Maryam Irandoost aiming for knockout stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran\u2019s women\u2019s football team head coach Maryam Irandoost says that they want to book a place at the 2022 AFC Women&#8217;s Asian Cup knockout stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran is in Group A along with India, China, and Chinese Taipei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2022 AFC Women&#8217;s Asian Cup will serve as the final stage of Asian qualification for the 2023 FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand (Regulations Article 4.6), in which Australia already qualified automatically as a co-host. Five teams will qualify directly for the World Cup via the knockout stage (including play-offs for a fifth place or possibly sixth place), and two more teams will advance to the inter-confederation play-offs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know how strong our rivals are in Group A but we also know how powerful we are. We open the campaign with a match against hosts India on Jan 20 and it will definitely be a tough match. Our second match will be against China who is the most decorated Asian team. China Taipei is also a powerful team,\u201d Irandoost said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran football team was supposed to hold a 10-day training camp in Charleroi, Belgium but the camp was canceled. The women\u2019s football team will hold a 10-day camp in Kish Island prior to the Asian Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe failed to arrange a single friendly match for the 2022 AFC Women&#8217;s Asian Cup despite sending invitations to 14 countries. They didn\u2019t accept our request since Iran\u2019s women\u2019s football team is not a strong team but I believe in my girls and we are looking for a place at the competition\u2019s knockout stage,\u201d she added. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran\u2019s women\u2019s football team head coach Maryam Irandoost says that they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":44561,"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-44560","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":665,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44560","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=44560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44562,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44560\/revisions\/44562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}