{"id":54346,"date":"2026-01-02T17:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54346"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:47:28","slug":"u23-friendly-iran-defeats-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/01\/02\/u23-friendly-iran-defeats-china\/","title":{"rendered":"U23 Friendly: Iran defeats China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Iran\u2019s U-23 football team defeated China 1-0 in a friendly match on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match held at the Iranian Club in Dubai, the Chinese defender scored an own goal.<\/p>\n<p>The match was held as part of preparation for the 2026 AFC U-23 Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian U-23 side has been drawn into Group C alongside South Korea, Lebanon, and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>They will open their campaign on January 7 with a high-profile match against South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 AFC U-23 Asian Cup will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from January 6 to 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBAI, Iran\u2019s U-23 football team defeated China 1-0 in a friendly match on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1074,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54346","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=54346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54348,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54346\/revisions\/54348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}