{"id":53014,"date":"2025-03-20T13:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53014"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:27:48","slug":"iran-beat-uae-at-2026-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/03\/20\/iran-beat-uae-at-2026-world-cup-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"WCQ 2026: Iran defeats UAE [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TT, TEHRAN &#8211; <strong>Iran moved within a point of sealing a fourth consecutive FIFA World Cup appearance after defeating United Arab Emirates 2-0 in their AFC Asian Qualifiers \u2013 Road to 26 Group A tie on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sixth win of the campaign kept them firmly on top of Group A and avoiding defeat against Uzbekistan &#8211; who beat Kyrgyzstan 1-0 &#8211; on Tuesday will book their place at the FIFA World Cup 2026 to be hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The deadlock was broken before the halftime, with Sardar Azmoun opening the goal with a header.<\/p>\n<p>Mohebbi scored Iran\u2019s second goal in the 70th minute in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XO_TTtTsSKA\">HIGHLIGHTS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TT, TEHRAN &#8211; Iran moved within a point of sealing a fourth consecutive FIFA World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":53015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2250,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53014","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\/34468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53020,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53014\/revisions\/53020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}