{"id":24494,"date":"2016-02-25T15:10:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24494"},"modified":"2016-02-25T15:10:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:10:01","slug":"fifa-lauds-iran-futsal-team-in-2016-asian-futsal-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/02\/25\/fifa-lauds-iran-futsal-team-in-2016-asian-futsal-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA lauds Iran Futsal Team in 2016 Asian Futsal Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>FIFA has praised Team Melli after winning the 2016 AFC Futsal Championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team defeated Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final match on Sunday and claimed the title for the 11th time.  <\/p>\n<p>Iran has dominated the Asian futsal scene since the inaugural continental contest was staged in Malaysia in 1999, clinching top-three finishes at all 14 of the tournaments that have been held to date. Indeed, the Iranians have emerged victorious a staggering 11 times, while finishing second once and third two times;  it has consequently participated in more World Cups than any other country, FIFA.com wrote.<\/p>\n<p>At Uzbekistan 2016, Team Melli got off to a typically strong start, comfortably winning all three of their Group B matches. It subsequently thrashed Kyrgyzstan 7-0 in the quarter-final and Vietnam 13-1 in the semis, prior to coming from behind to defeat the host 2-1 in a closely contested final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ZURICH, FIFA has praised Team Melli after winning the 2016 AFC Futsal Championship&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24494","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":1852,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24494","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=24494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}