{"id":46369,"date":"2022-08-01T09:17:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T16:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=46369"},"modified":"2022-08-01T09:17:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T16:17:53","slug":"iran-u23-football-team-withdraw-from-islamic-solidarity-games-%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/08\/01\/iran-u23-football-team-withdraw-from-islamic-solidarity-games-%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran U23 football team withdraw from Islamic Solidarity Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran U23 football team will not participate in the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games, Faraz Fatemi, sporting director of the team, has confirmed the news is correct.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian clubs have previously announced their readiness to cooperate with the U23 football team but they don\u2019t release their players to join us for the friendly matches,\u201d Fatemi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe decided not to participate at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games. We wanted to take part at the Games to prepare our team for the 2024 Olympic Games qualification but we cannot participate in the competition with an incomplete team,\u201d he added. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U23 football team lost to Persepolis club 4-2 in a friendly match on Sunday. The team were scheduled to play Paykan on Monday but the match has been canceled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mehdi Mahdavikia\u2019s side are drawn in Group B along with Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosts Turkey, Senegal, Algeria and Cameroon are in Group A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran U23 football team will not participate in the 2021 Islamic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":46370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,92,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46369","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-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1135,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46369","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=46369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46372,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46369\/revisions\/46372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}