{"id":11273,"date":"2010-05-31T01:03:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T08:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/31\/shams-never-in-doubt-despite-early-setback-2\/"},"modified":"2010-05-31T01:03:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T08:03:23","slug":"shams-never-in-doubt-despite-early-setback-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/31\/shams-never-in-doubt-despite-early-setback-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shams never in doubt despite early setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/coaches\/s\/300x200\/hossein_shams_irn_coach_3x2_05.jpg\" height=\"246\" width=\"369\" \/>AFC &#8211; Tashkent, <strong>Coach Hossein Shams had every confidence in Iran as the  defending champions came from behind against hosts Uzbekistan to win the  AFC Futsal Championship 2010 title after hitting five unanswered goals  in the second half to secure an 8-3 victory. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran were 2-0 behind as Dilshod Irsaliev and Nodir Elibaev  struck for Uzbekistan inside the first five minutes at Uzbekistan Sports  Complex, but after taking a 3-2 lead at half-time, Iran eased to a 10th  title.<\/p>\n<p>Masoud Daneshvar, Ali Asghar and Majid Raeisi each scored  twice for Iran, while Javad Asgharimoghaddam and tournament top scorer  and Most Valuable Player Mohammad Taheri were also on target for Shams&#8217;  side, who plundered 57 goals in six games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo quick goals by  Uzbekistan caught us by surprise, but despite that, I was convinced the  result would go in our favour,\u201d said Shams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been faced  with difficult situations in the past and every time it has failed to  break our spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan coach Sergio Sapo, meanwhile,  acknowledged the hosts were beaten by the better team after missing out  on a maiden AFC Futsal Championship title and being forced to settle for  a third runners-up finish since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expected a difficult  match in the final as Iran is the best team in Asia,\u201d said Sapo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe  started very well with two early goals, but Iran&#8217;s individual skill  prevailed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank the fans who came to support us  throughout the tournament. The second place is to their credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/newslead\/futsal_uzb_iran_celeb.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Tashkent, Coach Hossein Shams had every confidence in Iran as the defending champions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c15-futsal"],"views":3789,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}