{"id":12800,"date":"2012-03-11T18:42:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T01:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/03\/11\/iran-paired-with-australia-in-afc-futsal-championship\/"},"modified":"2012-03-11T18:42:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T01:42:43","slug":"iran-paired-with-australia-in-afc-futsal-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/03\/11\/iran-paired-with-australia-in-afc-futsal-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran paired with Australia in AFC Futsal Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/cache\/multithumb_thumbs\/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_mar02_12_13-1.jpg\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran has been grouped with Australia in the 2012 AFC Futsal Championship which takes place in the United Arab Emirates from May 25 to June 1.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Defending champion Iran will face Australia, Qatar and South Korea in Group C. &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Each of the four groups will play a one-round league where each team in the group shall play one match against every other team.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The top two in each group (eight teams in total) will advance to the knockout stage (quarterfinals) and the four winners of the quarterfinals will play in the semi-finals.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;The two winners will advance to the final and the two losing teams will face together in bronze medal match. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>THE GROUPINGS:<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/><strong>Group A<\/strong><br \/>UAE<br \/>Thailand<br \/>Kyrgyzstan<br \/>Turkmenistan<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/><strong>Group B<\/strong><br \/>Japan<br \/>Chinese Taipei<br \/>Tajikistan<br \/>Lebanon<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/><strong>Group C<\/strong><br \/>Iran<br \/>Australia &nbsp;<br \/>Qatar<br \/>Korea <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/><strong>Group D<\/strong><br \/>Uzbekistan<br \/>Indonesia<br \/>China PR<br \/>Kuwait<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran has been grouped with Australia in the 2012 AFC&#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-12800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c15-futsal"],"views":4998,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800","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=12800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}