{"id":45050,"date":"2022-02-18T08:29:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T16:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45050"},"modified":"2022-02-18T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T16:30:35","slug":"afc-u23-asian-cup-iran-handed-a-tough-group%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/02\/18\/afc-u23-asian-cup-iran-handed-a-tough-group%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC U23 Asian Cup: Iran handed a tough group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TASHKENT, <strong>Iran has been drawn in a tough group in the AFC U23 Asian Cup following the conclusion of the Uzbekistan 2022 Finals draw in Tashkent on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Titleholders Korea Republic are drawn in Group C along with ASEAN trio of Thailand, 2018 runners-up Vietnam and Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosts Uzbekistan, the 2018 champions, will have Iran, Qatar and newcomers Turkmenistan to contend with in Group A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>Australia, third in the 2020 edition, were drawn in Group B with Jordan, Iraq and Kuwait while Japan, the 2016 champions, are in Group D with 2020 runners-up Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and debutants Tajikistan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fifth edition of the Championship will be played in Central Asia for the first time, with Uzbekistan hosting 32 matches across the cities of Tashkent and Karshi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four former champions and nine teams to have reached the semi-finals or better within the last decade alongside two debutants will battle for Continental supremacy from June 1 to 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TASHKENT, Iran has been drawn in a tough group in the AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,175,84,92,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45050","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-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1919,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45050","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=45050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45054,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45050\/revisions\/45054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}