{"id":15923,"date":"2013-09-23T11:52:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T18:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=15923"},"modified":"2013-09-23T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T18:52:22","slug":"fifa-beach-soccer-world-cup-iran-advances-to-knockout-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/09\/23\/fifa-beach-soccer-world-cup-iran-advances-to-knockout-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup: Iran advances to knockout stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; PAPEETE, <strong>Iran lost to Ukraine 3-2 in the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Papeete, Tahiti but qualified for the knockout stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match was a tight and bruising affair throughout with scores tied 1-1 at the first interval with goals from Iran\u2019s Mohammad Ahmadzadeh and Ukraine\u2019s Andrii Borsuk.<\/p>\n<p>Olexandr Kornichuk put the Europeans in front at the midway point of the middle period with a superb strike.<\/p>\n<p>Iran looked more dangerous in the third period but Ukraine goalkeeper Vitalii Sydorenko remained a challenging obstacle.<br \/>\nCaptain Igor Borsuk then put his side ahead with another excellent strike for the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Peymann Hosseini reduced the deficit late on, leaving Ukraine chasing more goals to have any hope of progressing.<\/p>\n<p>Iran advanced by the slenderest of margins in a three-way head-to-head after they finished on three points with Ukraine and Senegal, according to FIFA.com.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil celebrated in style with an 8-3 win over Senegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; PAPEETE, Iran lost to Ukraine 3-2 in the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2717,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923","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=15923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}