{"id":21986,"date":"2015-07-08T09:38:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21986"},"modified":"2015-07-08T09:38:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:38:45","slug":"team-melli-wants-to-win-beach-soccer-world-cup-marco-octavio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/07\/08\/team-melli-wants-to-win-beach-soccer-world-cup-marco-octavio\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Team Melli wants to win Beach Soccer World Cup&#8221; &#8211; Marco Octavio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim News &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian national beach soccer team&#8217;s coach Marco Octavio said they are going to win the Beach Soccer World Cup 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran will face Spain on Friday in its opener at the Praia da Baia, Espinho in Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will face giant Brazil and Mexico on 12th and 14th July, respectively, in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to try and win the title. We are a strong team, as we\u2019ve shown in the past. We reached the quarter-finals at the last World Cup, where we went down fighting to world champion Russia,\u201d Octavio told FIFA.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the world finals we then went on to beat Russia and Brazil, and we\u2019ll need to be ready to figure among the title contenders this time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The 16 teams total participating in this year\u2019s event are: Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Iran, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, Oman, Paraguay, Portugal, Russia, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland, Tahiti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim News &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian national beach soccer team&#8217;s coach Marco Octavio said they are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1381,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}