{"id":16962,"date":"2014-01-12T09:31:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T17:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16962"},"modified":"2014-01-12T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T19:41:08","slug":"10-man-iran-beat-greece-to-claim-fifth-place-in-granatkin-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/01\/12\/10-man-iran-beat-greece-to-claim-fifth-place-in-granatkin-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"10-man Iran beat Greece to claim fifth place in Granatkin Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; SAINT PETERSBURG, <strong>Iran concluded the Valentin Granatkin u-18 tournament with a 3-2 win over Greece, thus claiming the fifth position out of the 16 participating nations after winning four out of five matches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fathian, Bazaj and and Sohrabian gave Iran a comfortable 3-0 halftime lead, but two blunders from defender Hosseini early in second half &#8211; the second resulting in his expulsion and a penalty kick &#8211; put Iran&#8217;s win in danger.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ali Doustimehr&#8217;s men held on to the narrow lead to only finish behind Russia, Japan, Turkey and Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p>Iran participated three times before, finishing third, fourth and eighth.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Belarus, Finland, Slovenia and Greece were defeated while the Iranian youngsters had only lost their final group game versus Slovakia 1-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; SAINT PETERSBURG, Iran concluded the Valentin Granatkin u-18 tournament with a 3-2 win&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2720,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16962","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=16962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}