{"id":11604,"date":"2010-10-24T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/24\/paraguay-beats-iran-for-3rd-at-brazil-gp\/"},"modified":"2010-10-24T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T23:02:11","slug":"paraguay-beats-iran-for-3rd-at-brazil-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/24\/paraguay-beats-iran-for-3rd-at-brazil-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay beats Iran for 3rd at Brazil GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"divLead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/previous.presstv.ir\/photo\/20101024\/asohrabi20101024032540217.jpg\" height=\"268\" width=\"402\" \/>PTV &#8211; ANAPOLIS, <strong>The Iranian futsal  squad has lost to Paraguay 5-3 in the third-place playoff of the Futsal  Grand Prix Brazil 2010 at Newton de Faria gym in Anapolis.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>In a hotly contested game, both teams were tied at 3-3 in normal  time but the South Americans scored 2 goals in overtime to win the  bronze medal. <\/p>\n<p>Asghar Hassanzadeh, Mohammad Keshavarz, and Javad Asghari Moqaddam scored for Iran in the third-place decider. <\/p>\n<p>Iran defeated Argentina 2-0 to advance to the semifinal but was downed by Spain 6-4 to take on Paraguay.   <\/p>\n<p>Spain and Brazil will fight for the title of the championship on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The Futsal Grand Prix 2010, known as the Futsal Mini-World Cup, kicked off on October 17 and runs until October 24. <\/p>\n<p>Iran reached the finals of the Grand Prix de Futsal in 2007 and 2009  but finished runner-up both times. They lost 7-1 to Brazil in the final  of the previous edition. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will hopefully become runner-up again. Iran is gearing up for  the Futsal World Cup and this kind of competition will help us have a  better performance,\u201d Iran coach Hossein Shams said in August. <\/p>\n<p>The Grand Prix de Futsal is an international futsal competition of  the same kind as the FIFA Futsal World Championship but the difference  is that nations are invited to the tourney and it has been held annually  in Brazil since 2005. <\/p>\n<p>Iran has a strong national futsal team, which has won all the  editions of the Asian Futsal Championship except one. It also has some  of the best futsal players on the continent and also in the world,  including Vahid Shamsaei, the world&#8217;s all-time leading futsal scorer  with over 330 goals. <\/p>\n<p>The Iranians are the 4th strongest team in the world according to the Futsal World Rankings. <\/p>\n<p>The ten-time winners of the Asian Futsal Championship have played in  five editions of the FIFA Futsal World Championship, reaching the  semi-finals in their first appearance in 1992. Iran won the First FIFA  Futsal Confederations Cup in Libya in 2009. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; ANAPOLIS, The Iranian futsal squad has lost to Paraguay 5-3 in the third-place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c15-futsal"],"views":4889,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604","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=11604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}