{"id":11262,"date":"2010-05-28T19:26:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T02:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/28\/familiarity-breeds-content-for-imperious-iran\/"},"modified":"2010-05-28T19:26:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T02:26:36","slug":"familiarity-breeds-content-for-imperious-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/28\/familiarity-breeds-content-for-imperious-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiarity breeds content for imperious Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Futsal-TM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Futsal-TM.jpg\" height=\"208\" width=\"320\" \/>AFC &#8211; TASHKENT, <strong>Iran coach Hossein Shams admitted past experience of playing Japan  enabled the defending champions to use the right tactics and secure  their passage to the AFC Futsal Championship 2010 final with ease  following a 7-0 win at Uzbekistan Sports Complex on Friday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranians will now bid for a stunning 10th Asian title when  they tackle hosts Uzbekistan on Sunday in a repeat of the 2001 final,  which ended in the former&#8217;s favour.<\/p>\n<p>Masoud Daneshvar opened the  scoring against Japan after just one minute before adding a second 11  minutes later but that proved to be the last goal before the break.<\/p>\n<p>Needing  to claw back the two-goal deficit Japan went on the offensive after the  restart and Iran took full advantage of the gaps in defence with Javad  Asgharimoghaddam scoring a hat-trick and Mostafa Tayyebi and Mohammad  Keshavarz Nasrabadi also getting on the score-sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the  last seven AFC Futsal Championship finals have seen Iran tackle Japan  and on each occasion the Iranians came out on top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis game was  not the first time we have met the Japanese team so we knew all about  their strengths and weaknesses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we scored our  second goal I realised that our rivals would put all their players  outfield and that enabled us to go on and get such a great result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defeated  coach Miguel Rodrigo believes to beat Iran at the moment is almost  impossible and conceded they were better than his side in almost every  department.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese had been impressive in their run to the  semi-finals with fourth successive victories during which they scored 20  goals and conceded just two.<\/p>\n<p>But they were ultimately outclassed  by Iran and Rodrigo had no qualms with the result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran have  once again confirmed their status and to fight against them is  practically impossible,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tried to play well in this  game but Iran were extremely good at making the most of their chances.  The Iranians were stronger than us and showed their class and physical  ability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TASHKENT, Iran coach Hossein Shams admitted past experience of playing Japan enabled the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c15-futsal"],"views":3046,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11262","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}