{"id":13229,"date":"2012-10-29T16:46:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T23:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/29\/iran-futsal-team-heading-to-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2012-10-29T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T23:46:03","slug":"iran-futsal-team-heading-to-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/29\/iran-futsal-team-heading-to-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran futsal team heading to World Cup"},"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_edim_13-1(93).jpg\" width=\"300\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran futsal team will leave Tehran on Monday morning to participate in the 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Thailand.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The 7th edition of the Futsal World Cup will take place in Thailand from November 1 to 18.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The 10-time Asian champion was drawn in Group B along with Spain, Morocco and Panama. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran drew 3-3 with two-time world champion Spain in the previous edition held in Brazil. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The Asian powerhouse is scheduled to face Spain on November 3 in its opening match in Bangkok\u2019s Hua Mark Indoor Stadium. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;Our goal is to reach the semi-final at the World Cup. We have a good team and I think Iran could even qualify for the final game,\u201d Iran coach Ali Sanei said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cIn the preliminary round we have a difficult job. Spain is one of the most powerful teams and we have also no knowledge of Morocco and Panama teams. That makes it difficult for us,\u201d he added. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran has participated four times in the World Cup so far. The Persians made their debut in 1992, where they finished in fourth place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran futsal team will leave Tehran on Monday morning to participate&#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-13229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c15-futsal"],"views":3298,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13229","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=13229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}