{"id":12383,"date":"2011-08-30T17:33:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T00:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/08\/30\/iran-to-play-italy-in-beach-soccer-world-cup-opener\/"},"modified":"2011-08-30T17:33:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T00:33:35","slug":"iran-to-play-italy-in-beach-soccer-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/08\/30\/iran-to-play-italy-in-beach-soccer-world-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play Italy in Beach Soccer World Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"IranAndOtherFlags\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IranAndOtherFlags.jpg\" height=\"193\" width=\"301\" \/>MNA &#8211; RAVENNA, <strong>Iran will play host Italy in its opening match of the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup on September 1.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team left Tehran on Sunday to take part in the competition which will take place at the Stadio del Mare in Ravenna, Italy from September 1 to 11.\u2028<\/p>\n<p> Iran has been drawn in Group A alongside Italy, Senegal and Switzerland.<br \/>\u201cOur group is tough but we are going to book a place in the next stage. We want to show our power to the world,\u201d head of Iran Beach Soccer Committee Reza Ali said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup will be the sixth edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether 16 teams divided into four groups composed of four teams. 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<p>Groups:<br \/>Group A: Italy, Iran, Senegal, Switzerland<br \/>Group B: Argentina, El Salvador, Oman, Portugal<br \/>Group C: Nigeria, Russia, Tahiti, Venezuela<br \/>Group D: Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; RAVENNA, Iran will play host Italy in its opening match of the 2011&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4676,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383","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=12383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}