Iran Women down India to set up Jordan showdown
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second round of qualification for the 2011 AFC U-16 Women’s Championship after the Iranian girls defeated India 3-0 on Tuesday.
Fatemeh Ardestani opened the scoring at Petra Stadium in the 35th minute before doubling her side’s advantage on the stroke of half-time.
Behnaz Taherkhani added a third two minutes into second-half stoppage time as Iran mirrored the result the Jordanians achieved against India when the South and Central/West Zone qualification group kicked-off on Sunday.
With only the three teams in the group the winners of the Iran-Jordan clash will advance to the second round and with both sides level on points and goal difference there will be a penalty shootout to decide the outcome should the match be tied at the end of the 90 minutes.
The ASEAN Zone group – which consists of hosts Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Guam and Timor Leste – kicks off in Manila on Friday with the winner of the round-robin league joining Iran or Jordan in the second round, where they will meet the teams that finished 6th to 8th at the last AFC U-16 Women’s Championship (Thailand, Myanmar and Chinese Taipei) for a single-round league tournament in December.
The winners will then join Korea Republic, DPR Korea, Japan, Australia and China at the 2011 AFC U-16 Women’s Championship finals.
