{"id":25711,"date":"2026-11-09T15:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T15:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/09\/afghanistan-under-18-futsal-youth-olympics-semifinals-loss-portugal\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T15:01:19","slug":"afghanistan-under-18-futsal-youth-olympics-semifinals-loss-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/09\/afghanistan-under-18-futsal-youth-olympics-semifinals-loss-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Under-18 Futsal Team Falls to Portugal in Youth Olympics Semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghanistan Under-18 national futsal team was defeated 2-0 by Portugal in the semifinals of the Youth Olympic Games held in Dakar, Senegal, on Monday evening. Despite the Afghan young players&#8217; determined efforts during this crucial match, they were unable to secure a spot in the final. Having advanced strongly to the semifinals, the Afghanistan Under-18 team will now compete for the bronze medal and third place. This relative success in the Youth Olympics highlights the sporting potential among Afghanistan&#8217;s youth but also underscores the need for increased support and better facilities to foster further development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s Under-18 futsal team lost 2-0 to Portugal in the Youth Olympics semifinals and will now compete for the bronze medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711","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=25711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}