{"id":25636,"date":"2026-11-08T15:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/08\/afghanistan-u17-football-starts-asian-cup-qualifiers-with-4-1-win-over-myanmar\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:15:15","slug":"afghanistan-u17-football-starts-asian-cup-qualifiers-with-4-1-win-over-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/08\/afghanistan-u17-football-starts-asian-cup-qualifiers-with-4-1-win-over-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan U-17 Football Team Dominates Myanmar with a 4-1 Victory in Asian Cup Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Afghanistan&#8217;s U-17 national football team began the 2027 Asian Cup qualifiers with a commanding 4-1 victory over the host nation, Myanmar. Mohammad Faheem Hamas played a pivotal role in the win by scoring a hat-trick and was named the best player on the field. Tayyab Qadri opened the scoring for Afghanistan in the 9th minute. Just six minutes later, Hamas netted the team&#8217;s second goal, and in the 23rd minute, he scored again, bringing the first half to a close with Afghanistan leading 3-0. In the second half, Hamas completed his hat-trick within four minutes of the restart by scoring the fourth goal. Myanmar managed to pull one back through a penalty in the 56th minute, but the match ended 4-1 in favor of Afghanistan. In this competition, Afghanistan is placed in Group A alongside Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Cambodia. Afghanistan will face Cambodia in their second group match on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s U-17 football team started Asian Cup qualifiers with a 4-1 win over Myanmar, led by a hat-trick from Mohammad Faheem Hamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}