{"id":45945,"date":"2022-06-01T19:10:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T02:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45945"},"modified":"2022-06-01T19:11:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T02:11:40","slug":"2022-afc-u23-asian-cup-iran-held-by-qatar-video-%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/06\/01\/2022-afc-u23-asian-cup-iran-held-by-qatar-video-%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup: Iran held by Qatar [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TASHKENT, <strong>Iran was held to a 1-1 draw by Qatar in the opening match of the 2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qatar&#8217;s Ahmed Al Ganehi scored 87th and&nbsp;Erfan Shahriari salvaged a point for Iran with his strike in stoppage time.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>Iran will also play newcomers Turkmenistan and hosts Uzbekistan on June 4 and 7, respectively.<br \/><br \/>Iran played two friendly matches with Iraq U23 football team in Baghdad last week as part of preparation for the AFC U23 Asian Cup, where they earned a 1-0 win and lost 3-1 in their second match.<br \/><br \/>The 2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup is 5th edition of the competition, a biennial international age-restricted football championship organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men&#8217;s under-23 national teams of Asia.<br \/><br \/>The tournament was scheduled for Jan. 6 to 24, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and rescheduled for June 1 to 19.<br \/><br \/>&nbsp;A total of 16 teams compete in the tournament.<br \/><br \/>South Korea are the defending champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#AFCU23 - Group A | Islamic Republic of Iran 1 - 1 Qatar\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CrtDyJhAEp0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TASHKENT, Iran was held to a 1-1 draw by Qatar in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,92,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45945","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-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2293,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45945","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=45945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45948,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45945\/revisions\/45948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}