{"id":12279,"date":"2011-07-07T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/07\/07\/iran-to-play-italy-in-beach-soccer-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2011-07-07T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T16:14:12","slug":"iran-to-play-italy-in-beach-soccer-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/07\/07\/iran-to-play-italy-in-beach-soccer-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play Italy in Beach Soccer World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mehrnews.com\/mehr_media\/image\/2009\/10\/478920_orig.jpg\" height=\"219\" width=\"337\" \/>MNA &#8211; ROME, <strong>Iran will face host Italy on the opening day of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2011.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn alongside Italy, Senegal and Switzerland in the competition which will be held in Rome, Italy from 1 to 11 September.<\/p>\n<p>The draw ceremony was held on Tuesday in the presence of Giancarlo Abete, President of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and Carlo Tavecchio, Vice-President of FIGC and President of the Lega Nazionale Dilettanti (LND).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran has been drawn in a tough group but we will try to qualify for the next stage,\u201d director of Iran Beach Soccer Committee Reza Ali said. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Groups<\/strong><br \/>Italy, Iran, Senegal, Switzerland<br \/>CONMEBOL qualifier 2, El Salvador, Oman, Portugal<br \/>CONMEBOL qualifier 3, Nigeria, Russia, Tahiti<br \/>CONMEBOL qualifier 1, Japan, Mexico, Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>The winners and runners-up in each group will qualify for the knockout stages, with all games played on the beautiful beach of Ravenna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; ROME, Iran will face host Italy on the opening day of the FIFA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3936,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12279","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=12279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}