{"id":80566,"date":"2015-10-04T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/chance-to-reach-for-the-u-19-football-world-cup-lost\/"},"modified":"2015-10-04T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T21:26:00","slug":"chance-to-reach-for-the-u-19-football-world-cup-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/chance-to-reach-for-the-u-19-football-world-cup-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance to reach for the U-19 Football World Cup lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL(SW):Afghanistan&rsquo;s Under-19 football team has lost the chance to compete in the World Cup following back to back defeats in the qualifying rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The latest defeat came Sunday night when the Afghan squad lost to Palestine 0-2. None of the teams could score in the first half as both sides showcased good fight. Palestine managed to score its first goal in the 50<sup>th<\/sup> minute of the game in the second half. It was followed by another one in the 90<sup>th<\/sup> minute that sealed the victory for them.<\/p>\n<p>In the Asian qualifiers for the Under-19 World Cup, Afghanistan lost its first match to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) 0-3. In its group, Afghanistan now stands at 3<sup>rd<\/sup> slot ahead of India. The Afghan squad would take on India tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So far, Afghanistan has received 5 goals and has failed to score any. India on the other end has also failed to score any but has sustained 8 goals in the two games it has played. It is worth mentioning that Afghanistan&rsquo;s U-19 played its first international match in 2009 and has lost all nine games it has played so far.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, 40 Asian countries divided in ten groups are competing for the U-19 World Cup. Only 20 of them would qualify for the second rounds of the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s Under-19 football team has lost the chance to compete in the World Cup following back to back defeats in the qualifying rounds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-80566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80566","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=80566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}