{"id":45072,"date":"2022-02-20T07:19:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T15:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45072"},"modified":"2022-02-20T07:19:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T15:19:05","slug":"afc-iran-aims-to-make-impact-in-2022-afc-u-23-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/02\/20\/afc-iran-aims-to-make-impact-in-2022-afc-u-23-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC: Iran aims to make Impact in 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran will be looking to make an impact on the 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC)\u2019s website said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uzbekistan will expect to advance to the knockout stage on home soil but Thursday&#8217;s draw would have left the team fearing the unknown after being drawn alongside Iran, Qatar and debutant Turkmenistan, it wrote.<br \/><br \/>Uzbekistan has enjoyed success in the last two editions of the tournament &#8211; winning the title in 2018 and finishing fourth two years ago &#8211; but will be wary of their group stage opponents come June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran and Qatar, big hitters at the senior level, will be looking to make an impact on a tournament neither has won before and this spells danger for Uzbekistan.<br \/><br \/>Qatar&#8217;s best was a third-placed finish in 2018 while Iran has not featured in the semi-finals of the previous four editions and Uzbekistan 2022 could well be the platform for both to deliver.<br \/><br \/>Turkmenistan will be an unknown quantity for all three teams and the Central Asian side will relish the opportunity of testing itself against higher ranked opposition in its debut AFC U-23 Asian Cup appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran will be looking to make an impact on the 2022&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45073,"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-45072","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":1737,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45072","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=45072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45074,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45072\/revisions\/45074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}