{"id":53812,"date":"2025-09-10T08:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53812"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:10:38","slug":"iran-qualifies-for-afc-u-23-asian-cup-2026-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/09\/10\/iran-qualifies-for-afc-u-23-asian-cup-2026-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran qualifies for AFC U-23 Asian Cup 2026  [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>Iran held off a fightback from the United Arab Emirates to top Group I of the AFC U-23 Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2026 Qualifiers with a 3-2 win on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran will make a return to the Finals after having missed out on the 2024 edition, with the UAE also going through as one of the four best runners-up.<\/p>\n<p>Iran broke the deadlock in the 25th minute when Ahmad Yadoo&#8217;s clearance from Mohammad Hossein Sadeqi&#8217;s cross hit Amir Mohammad Razzaqinia, with the ball landing in the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Iran doubled its advantage thanks to Saeed Saharkhizan\u2019s glancing header from a perfect Javad Hosseinnejad free-kick delivery in the 36th minute.<\/p>\n<p>It became 3-0 six minutes later after the UAE&#8217;s Matar Alshamsi brought down Yadegar Rostami in the box, with Saharkhizan making no mistake from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE\u2019s Mayed Alkas pulled a goal back before the halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE found its second goal, Jumah Almansoori winning possession off Pouria Latififar in Iran&#8217;s box before lifting the ball past the advancing Mohammad Khalifeh.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u062e\u0644\u0627\u0635\u0647 \u0628\u0627\u0632\u06cc \u062a\u06cc\u0645 \u0645\u0644\u06cc \u0627\u0645\u06cc\u062f \u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646 \u0648 \u0627\u0645\u0627\u0631\u0627\u062a | Iran U23 vs UAE U23\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bh9H3fW7l0s?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>Tasnim &#8211; ABU DHABI, Iran held off a fightback from the United Arab Emirates to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,175,84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1090,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53812","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=53812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53814,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53812\/revisions\/53814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}