{"id":16087,"date":"2013-10-07T00:12:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T07:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16087"},"modified":"2013-10-07T00:12:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T07:12:07","slug":"iranian-volleyballers-win-second-straight-asian-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/10\/07\/iranian-volleyballers-win-second-straight-asian-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian volleyballers win second straight Asian championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Iran defeated South Korea in straight sets in the final of the 2013 Asian Men\u2019s Volleyball Championship on Sunday, winning their second straight Asian title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match, which was held at the Hamdan Sports Complex in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, Iran defeated the South Korean team 3-0 (25-19, 25-22, 25-19).<\/p>\n<p>In the bronze medal match, China beat Japan 3-1 (25-18, 25-22, 22-25, 25\u201320).<\/p>\n<p>In September 2011, Iran won the Asian Senior Men\u2019s Volleyball Championship for the first time with a 3-1 victory over China.<\/p>\n<p>Iran defeated Kazakhstan 3-0 and Kuwait 3-0 in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>In the second round, Iran beat Iraq 3-0 and then defeated South Korea 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team blanked Lebanon 3-0 in the quarterfinals and then beat Japan in straight sets in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sent a message of congratulations to the Iranian volleyball team after their victory in the final of the Asian championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, Iran defeated South Korea in straight sets in the final of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c20-other-news"],"views":2457,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16087","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\/25049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}