{"id":78600,"date":"2018-07-03T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T09:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/national-under-16-football-squad-lands-in-tashkent\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:50:35","slug":"national-under-16-football-squad-lands-in-tashkent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/national-under-16-football-squad-lands-in-tashkent\/","title":{"rendered":"National under 16 football squad lands in Tashkent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"749\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/July\/3\/Football (2).jpg\" width=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; Afghanistan&rsquo;s national under 16 football team has reached Tashkent, Uzbekistan to feature in the Central Asian football championship.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Afghanistan Football Federation, the boys have trained extensively for six days in Oman before landing in Uzbekistan. The tournament would commence in Tashkent on July 05.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan would play its maiden match against the host Uzbekistan on Thursday, 06, July. Later, it would also take on the national under 16 teams of Iran, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan lost both of its friendly preparation&nbsp;games against Oman.<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to train hard and prepare for bigger games, Afghanistan joined the Central Asian zone in 2015 quitting the relatively easier South Asian zone.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Iran is the champion of the Central Asian zone while Afghanistan is on the 29<sup>th<\/sup> slot.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nKABUL (SW) \u2013 Afghanistan\u2019s national under 16 football team has reached Tashkent, Uzbekistan to feature in the Central Asian football championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-78600","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\/78600","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=78600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}