{"id":12257,"date":"2011-06-28T04:34:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/28\/irans-mansouri-in-asian-futsal-semis\/"},"modified":"2011-06-28T04:34:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:34:49","slug":"irans-mansouri-in-asian-futsal-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/28\/irans-mansouri-in-asian-futsal-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Mansouri in Asian futsal semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">PTV &#8211; DOHA, <strong>The Iranian club  Shahid Mansouri has pummeled Al Sadaka of <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/components\/com_fpss\/images\/nl_shahid_ghbank2.jpg\" \/>Lebanon 5-3 to advance to the  semifinals of the 2011 Asian Futsal Club Championship, which is  currently underway in Qatar.<\/strong><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"><\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Shahid Mansouri gained its second consecutive Group B victory  against Al Sadaka at Doha&#8217;s Al Rayyan Main Hall on Monday to become the  first team to gain a berth in the semis. <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">The Iranians defeated Ardus of Uzbekistan 4-2 in their opener. <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">The Iranian team took the lead when Morteza Azimaei tapped in the ball on a neat pass from Ahmad Esmaeilpour on the line. <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Al Sadaka leveled the game through a shot by Marwan Gorges, a minute  before Shahid Mansouri took the lead again when Masoud Daneshvar  side-footed the ball through keeper Rabie El Kakhi&#8217;s legs. <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Mohammadesmaeil Vatankhah then extended the lead for Shahid Mansouri  on a bounce ball, before the Lebanese club pulled one back through  Khaled Takaji&#8217;s goal. <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Azimaei then doubled his tally minutes before Ahmad Pariazar scored Shahid Mansouri&#8217;s fifth to add to Al Sadaka&#8217;s misery. <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Takaji netted his second to reduce the deficit for the Lebanese side, but ultimately it was in vain. <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">\u201cI would like to thank my players because they played a very tough  game. We played better than yesterday, although there were a few  mistakes, but I think we can rectify them in the next game,\u201d Shahid  Mansouri head coach Reza Lak said after the match. <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Mansouri is scheduled to face GH Bank RBAC from Thailand on Tuesday. <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">The second semifinal spot from Group B is still open as GH Bank RBAC and Ardus played to a 4-4 draw later in the day. <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/span><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Iran&#8217;s Foulad Mahan Sepahan won the title in the inaugural edition of the competition in 2010. <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/components\/com_fpss\/images\/nl_shahid_ghbank1_1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; DOHA, The Iranian club Shahid Mansouri has pummeled Al Sadaka of Lebanon 5-3&#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-12257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c15-futsal"],"views":4596,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12257","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=12257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}