{"id":24425,"date":"2016-02-20T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24425"},"modified":"2016-02-20T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T17:33:10","slug":"afc-futsal-championship-2016-final-iran-vs-uzbekistan-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/02\/20\/afc-futsal-championship-2016-final-iran-vs-uzbekistan-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Futsal Championship 2016 Final: Iran vs. Uzbekistan [Preview]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TASHKENT, <strong>Coach Mohammad Nazemosharie has warned \u201canything can happen\u201d ahead of Sunday\u2019s AFC Futsal Championship final against hosts Uzbekistan as Iran chance an 11th continental title at Uzbekistan Stadium.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIran progressed to the final with a perfect record and underlined their title credentials with a 13-1 semi-final success over Vietnam on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Nazemosharie\u2019s side, who have scored 46 goals and conceded just three in five games, also beat Uzbekistan 8-3 in the 2010 final in Tashkent which was the last time Iran won the AFC Futsal Championship title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve prepared for six months for this one moment and we came to Uzbekistan only for one match, for this match, and to become champions,\u201d said Nazemosharie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure, on paper we are the strongest team but the interesting and wonderful thing about futsal is that anything can happen in any match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people say we are going to win for sure, for 99%, then I say we must focus on getting better and stopping the other 1%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo team that thinks they are champions can become champions; we have to come fully prepared, with good tactics, a good approach, mentality and strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan also progressed to the final without losing a game, but the hosts did need penalties to edge out Thailand in their semi-final on Friday following a 2-2 draw after extra-time.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe have to accept that we are playing in Uzbekistan\u2019s home and that they have a huge advantage with the crowd on their side,\u201d added Nazemosharie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery match you see, and I\u2019m sure it will be the same on Sunday, their fans arrive hours before kick-off and they sing and play music and we know just how difficult it will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran, though, following the 2010 final success, have won 22 of the 24 meetings with Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are constantly thinking how to improve, so that\u2019s why we practised the power-play, just to be ready,\u201d said Nazemosharie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also why we\u2019ll practice penalties because you never know what can happen in this beautiful game of futsal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photo: AFC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TASHKENT, Coach Mohammad Nazemosharie has warned \u201canything can happen\u201d ahead of Sunday\u2019s AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":3293,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24425","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=24425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}