{"id":13266,"date":"2012-11-12T19:24:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T03:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/11\/12\/former-iran-futsal-coach-rips-officials\/"},"modified":"2012-11-12T19:24:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T03:24:52","slug":"former-iran-futsal-coach-rips-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/11\/12\/former-iran-futsal-coach-rips-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Iran futsal coach rips officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Shams.jpg\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iran futsal coach Hossein Shams harshly criticized the Iranian football officials after Iran futsal team was eliminated from the 2012 Futsal World Cup.<\/strong><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran suffered a shock 2-1 loss against Colombia on Sunday in Bangkok and failed to qualify for the quarter-final round. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cIran lost to a team which had just defeated Solomon Islands in the group stage. It\u2019s unbelievable and a big embarrassment for Iran\u2019s futsal,\u201d Shams said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cOur coaches never changed their tactics during the four games. Iran drew with Spain in its opening but edged Morocco and Panama. Spain easily scored a lot of goals against the two teams,\u201d he added.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cIran played with powerful rivals in the 2008 Futsal World Cup and finished in fifth place. Who is responsible for the embarrassing performance?\u201d Shams stated.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Criticizing Spaniard Jesus Candelas Rodrigo, Shams said, \u201cThey (Iran\u2019s football officials) said that the coach is a futsal Professor but I think that they have been cheated on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iran futsal coach Hossein Shams harshly criticized the Iranian football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c15-futsal"],"views":5432,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266","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=13266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}