{"id":11081,"date":"2010-03-21T20:16:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/03\/21\/shams-predicts-iran-uzbek-final\/"},"modified":"2010-03-21T20:16:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:16:15","slug":"shams-predicts-iran-uzbek-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/03\/21\/shams-predicts-iran-uzbek-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Shams predicts Iran-Uzbek final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">AFC &#8211; Iran coach Hossein Shams has picked up Uzbekistan as their likely opponents in the<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\" alt=\"Futsal-Team Melli\" height=\"260\" width=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Futsal-Team%20Melli.jpg\" \/> final of the 2010 AFC Futsal Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-time champions were placed in Group B along with Kuwait, Australia and Tajikistan following the draw for the 16-team championship on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the top Asian futsal tournament and there are no weak teams. All the teams must be respected,\u201d he told the-afc.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJapan and Thailand are strong and always dangerous to face but I think Uzbekistan can spring a surprise this time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey failed to reach the semi-finals in the last edition but they are now trained by Sergio Sapo, who guided Japan to continental glory in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUzbekistan will also have home advantage and I think they will be our likely opponents in the final on May 30,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Iran coach Hossein Shams has picked up Uzbekistan as their likely opponents in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c15-futsal"],"views":3662,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}