{"id":25628,"date":"2016-07-14T16:34:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T23:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25628"},"modified":"2016-07-14T16:34:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T23:34:57","slug":"tasisat-set-for-title-defense-at-afc-futsal-club-championship-amir-shamsaei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/07\/14\/tasisat-set-for-title-defense-at-afc-futsal-club-championship-amir-shamsaei\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tasisat set for title defense at AFC Futsal Club Championship&#8221;: Amir Shamsaei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BANGKOK, <strong>Iran\u2019s Tasisat Daryaei coach Amir Shamsaei insists it will be more difficult to retain the AFC Futsal Club Championship than winning it for the first time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The reigning champion prepares to begin the defense of its title against debutant Almalyk FC of Uzbekistan in Group B at Bangkok Arena on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian side won all five of their matches on home soil in 2015 to claim the continental competition at the first time of asking after seeing off Kuwait\u2019s Al Qadsia in the final to cap a memorable debut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here to defend the championship that we won last year but I know it\u2019s a tough task we face. We always say that retaining the championship is harder than gaining it,\u201d said Shamsaei, whose side will face another debutant in Lebanon\u2019s Al Mayadeen on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see every game as a final, and we are all focused on the first match as well as thinking of the next stage. We are very well prepared for this tournament,\u201d the coach told the-afc.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BANGKOK, Iran\u2019s Tasisat Daryaei coach Amir Shamsaei insists it will be more difficult&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,88,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c20-other-news"],"views":1795,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628","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=25628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}