{"id":12473,"date":"2011-10-11T12:45:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T19:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/11\/iran-women-reach-final-of-football-tourney\/"},"modified":"2011-10-11T12:45:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T19:45:30","slug":"iran-women-reach-final-of-football-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/11\/iran-women-reach-final-of-football-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran women reach final of WAFF football tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">PTV  &#8211; <strong>The Iranian female football  team has edged past Jordan in the 4th  West Asian Women&#8217;s Football  Championship in the United Arab Emirates to  reach the <\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bornanews.ir\/Media\/Image\/Gallery\/3071\/634539254902213912.jpg\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" \/><strong>final.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> Maryam Rahimi&#8217;s hat trick helped Iran defeat  Jordan 3-2 at Sultan bin  Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Monday and book a  place in the final of  the 4th West Asia Football Federation (WAFF)  women&#8217;s championship, IRNA  reported.<\/p>\n<p> Shahnaz Jebreen opened the  scoring for Jordan in the third minute of  the match, but the first half  ended with no more goals by either team.<\/p>\n<p> Rahimi leveled the match  in the 56th minute, doubled her tally in the  72nd minute, and widened  the gap for Iran about ten minutes from the  final whistle.<\/p>\n<p> Ayah al-Majali pulled one back for Jordan, but the team could not get back on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p> In the other semifinal match, the UAE blanked Bahrain 4-0.<\/p>\n<p> Iran is scheduled to take on the host on Wednesday in the final, while Jordan will face Bahrain in the third-place playoff.<\/p>\n<p> Iran beat Syria, Lebanon, and the UAE in its earlier matches.<\/p>\n<p> The UAE is hosting the 4th West Asian Women&#8217;s Football Championship, which opened on October 3 and runs until October 12.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; The Iranian female football team has edged past Jordan in the 4th West&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4903,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473","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=12473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}