{"id":78516,"date":"2018-06-22T11:21:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T11:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/football-afghanistan-set-to-feature-in-cafa-u-16\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:49:41","slug":"football-afghanistan-set-to-feature-in-cafa-u-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/football-afghanistan-set-to-feature-in-cafa-u-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Afghanistan set to feature in CAFA U-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/6- June\/22\/football (1).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The national under &ndash; 16 football team is set to feature in the forthcoming Central Asian Football Association CAFA U-16 tournament in Uzbekistan next month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;According to the Afghanistan Football Federation, these games would begin on 05 July next month in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Teams from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan would feature in this event.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan would play its first match against the host Uzbekistan on the first day at 04:30 pm Kabul time. The Afghan side would face Tajikistan on 07 July at 07:30 pm Kabul time, and Kyrgyzstan at the same time on July 16.<\/p>\n<p>As per the rules, the champion of the event would be declared based on maximum points earned after the games. These games are crucial in terms of preparations for the upcoming U-16 Asian Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Afghanistan is placed in Group D for the U-16 Asian Championships to be played in Malaysia in September. In this group, the Afghan side would play against Australia, defending champion Iraq and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The national under \u2013 16 football team is set to feature in the forthcoming Central Asian Football Association CAFA U-16 tournament in Uzbekistan next month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-78516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}