{"id":53796,"date":"2025-09-03T14:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53796"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:35:48","slug":"iran-start-2026-afc-u23-asian-cup-qualification-on-high-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/09\/03\/iran-start-2026-afc-u23-asian-cup-qualification-on-high-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran start 2026 AFC U23 Asian Cup qualification on high [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehra  Times &#8211; ABU DHABI,<strong>Iran earned a 4-0 win over Hong Kong in their AFC U23 Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2026 Qualifiers Group I match on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match held at the Al Nahyan Stadium in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, Mehdi Jafari opened the scoring for Iran in the 70th minute and Amirmohammad Razzaghinia made it 2-0 three minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>With three minutes remaining, Kasra Taheri scored Iran\u2019s third goal and he also was on target in the added time.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will meet Guam and the UAE on Sept. 6 and 9, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The 44 teams were divided into eleven groups of four teams. In each group, teams played each other once at a centralized venue.<\/p>\n<p>The eleven group winners and the four best runners-up will qualify for the final tournament in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0625\u064a\u0631\u0627\u0646 4-0 \u0647\u0648\u0646\u062c \u0643\u0648\u0646\u062c | \u062a\u0635\u0641\u064a\u0627\u062a \u0643\u0623\u0633 \u0622\u0633\u064a\u0627 \u062a\u062d\u062a 23 \u0639\u0627\u0645\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HfIsrTKmZjY?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehra Times &#8211; ABU DHABI,Iran earned a 4-0 win over Hong Kong in their AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1970,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53796","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=53796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53798,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53796\/revisions\/53798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}