{"id":11970,"date":"2011-02-27T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/27\/brazil-wins-2nd-futsal-friendly-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T13:30:13","slug":"brazil-wins-2nd-futsal-friendly-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/27\/brazil-wins-2nd-futsal-friendly-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil wins 2nd futsal friendly in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Futsal_Brasil_Gold_Pan_2007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Futsal_Brasil_Gold_Pan_2007.jpg\" width=\"377\" height=\"255\" \/>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>World champion Brazil has defeated Iran 3-2 in a friendly futsal match in the city of Isfahan in central Iran.<\/strong><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian squad came from behind to edged past Iran for the second time in a week at Isfahan&#8217;s Pirouzi Arena on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Alberto Silva scored the opener for Brazil in the seventh minute,  and the rest of the first half saw the Iranians pressing hard for an  equalizer, but ultimately in vain. <\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team managed to level the game in the early minutes of the second half thanks to Asghar Hassanzadeh&#8217;s goal.  <\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, Afshin Kazemi put Iran ahead with a short-range volley into the goal. <\/p>\n<p>Gomez equalized the match for Brazil, and Silva scored his second  goal of the day to seal the victory against the Asian champions. <\/p>\n<p>The two teams played another friendly on Wednesday, with Brazil winning 4-3. <\/p>\n<p>Following the match, Iranian head coach Hossein Shams said, &#8220;We  could have won the match. These kinds of matches can help our players  gain experience against powerful teams like Brazil.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Brazilian futsal officials have invited Iran to take part in the Brazil futsal Grand Prix 2011. <\/p>\n<p>Brazil is the top team in the world according to the official  rankings and has won a record three straight championships in the FIFA  Futsal World Cup.  <\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team is in fourth place in the FIFA Futsal World Rankings. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, World champion Brazil has defeated Iran 3-2 in a friendly futsal match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c15-futsal"],"views":7255,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970","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=11970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}