{"id":46950,"date":"2022-09-18T14:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T21:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=46950"},"modified":"2022-09-18T21:36:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T04:36:21","slug":"iran-qualifies-for-the-2023-afc-u20-asian-cup-video-%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/09\/18\/iran-qualifies-for-the-2023-afc-u20-asian-cup-video-%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran qualifies for the 2023 AFC U20 Asian Cup [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BISHKEK, <strong>Iran defeated the UAE 2-0 to finish top of Group J of the AFC U20 Asian Cup Uzbekistan 2023 Qualifiers on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The win took Iran into the Finals while the Emirati side will miss out on Uzbekistan 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran came into the tie only needing to avoid defeat to book their place in the Finals following their earlier wins over the Kyrgyz Republic and Brunei Darussalam.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only a win would do for the UAE, following their 2-0 defeat to the Kyrgyz Republic on Friday, having kicked off their campaign with a 5-0 win over Brunei Darussalam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tight first half meant neither side was able to find the back of the net but that changed in the second period with Iran taking control of proceedings.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>The Central Asian side&#8217;s persistence was rewarded in the 71st minute with forward Saied Saharkhizan slotting home.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>A desperate UAE tried to find their way back but their hopes were dashed in the sixth minute of added time with Amir Ebrahimzadeh scoring Iran&#8217;s second.&nbsp;<\/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=\"HIGHLIGHTS | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - I. R. IRAN | QUALIFIERS | AFC U20 ASIAN CUP UZBEKISTAN 2023\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3DJz0AYUHy4?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; BISHKEK, Iran defeated the UAE 2-0 to finish top of Group J&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":46951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,169,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46950","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-u20","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1328,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46950","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=46950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46961,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46950\/revisions\/46961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}