{"id":52805,"date":"2025-02-07T18:23:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T02:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=52805"},"modified":"2025-02-07T18:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T02:23:30","slug":"iran-u-20-defeats-saudi-arabia-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/02\/07\/iran-u-20-defeats-saudi-arabia-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran U-20 defeats Saudi Arabia in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SHENZHEN, <strong>Iran\u2019s U-20 national football team defeated Saudi Arabia 2-1 in a friendly match on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reza Qandipour and Mohammad Dindar were on target for Iran in the match, held in Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<p>The match was held as part of preparation for the AFC U-20 Asian Cup China 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The young Persians are drawn in Group C along with Uzbekistan, Indonesia, and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen teams have been drawn into four groups with not just continental glory at stake, but also four tickets to the FIFA U-20 World Cup 2025 in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>The 42nd edition of the tournament will take place from February 12 to March 1 in Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Draw Result<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group A: China, Australia, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar<\/p>\n<p>Group B: Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, DPR Korea<\/p>\n<p>Group C: Uzbekistan, Iran, Indonesia, Yemen<\/p>\n<p>Group D: Japan, Korea Republic, Syria, Thailand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SHENZHEN, Iran\u2019s U-20 national football team defeated Saudi Arabia 2-1 in a friendly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":52806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,169,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-u20","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1979,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52805","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=52805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52807,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52805\/revisions\/52807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}