{"id":15855,"date":"2013-09-15T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T19:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=15855"},"modified":"2013-09-15T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T19:12:05","slug":"iran-heads-to-fifa-beach-soccer-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/09\/15\/iran-heads-to-fifa-beach-soccer-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran heads to FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; PAPEETE, <strong>Iran beach soccer team left Tehran for Tahiti on Saturday to compete at the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The competition will take place from September 18 to 28 at the Tahua To&#8217;ata Stadium (Stade Tahua To&#8217;ata) in Papeete, Tahiti.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian outfit has been drawn in Group C along with four-time FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup winner Brazil, African champion Senegal, as well as European challenger Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Asian champion will face Brazil on the opening day of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur objective is to reach the final four. We have been drawn in a difficult group but I know Brazil well since I am a Brazilian,\u201d Iran coach Marco Octavio said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran has already defeated Ukraine in a tournament in Belarus, however I don\u2019t know Senegal well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Groups:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group A: Tahiti, United Arab Emirates, Spain, the U.S<\/p>\n<p>Group B: Netherlands, Solomon Islands, Argentina, El Salvador<\/p>\n<p>Group C: Brazil, <strong>Iran<\/strong>, Senegal, Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>Group D: Russia, Japan, Paraguay, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; PAPEETE, Iran beach soccer team left Tehran for Tahiti on Saturday to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":8684,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}