{"id":45015,"date":"2022-02-13T09:32:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T17:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45015"},"modified":"2022-02-13T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T17:33:11","slug":"iran-edge-tajikistan-in-cafa-u19-futsal-championship%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/02\/13\/iran-edge-tajikistan-in-cafa-u19-futsal-championship%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran edge Tajikistan in CAFA U19 Futsal Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BISHKEK, <strong>Iran defeated Tajikistan 2-1 in the CAFA U19 Futsal Championship on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, who started the campaign on Saturday with a 10-3 win over Afghanistan, will play the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan on Thursday and Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five teams battle for regional bragging rights over five Matchdays at Bishkek\u2019s Gazprom Arena, with every CAFA Member Association except for Turkmenistan taking part in the inaugural U19 event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Played on a round-robin basis, the tournament will not only provide a platform for the region\u2019s next generation of senior internationals but deliver competitive preparation for regional and continental competitions to come over the next two years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each team will play four matches, with the final Matchday to be held on Saturday, February 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Central Asia has long been considered an Asian futsal hotspot, with 12-time continental champions Iran leading the way, while Uzbekistan have reached the AFC Futsal Asian Cup Final on four occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kyrgyz Republic has reached the semi-finals of the continental finals on three occasions, and Afghanistan were runners-up in the inaugural AFC U-20 Futsal Asian Cup in 2019, while Tajikistan have qualified for the last nine AFC Futsal Asian Cups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BISHKEK, Iran defeated Tajikistan 2-1 in the CAFA U19 Futsal Championship on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,140,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-iran-u19","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":716,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45015","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=45015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45018,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45015\/revisions\/45018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}