{"id":26139,"date":"2016-09-24T18:46:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T01:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26139"},"modified":"2016-09-25T21:42:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T04:42:42","slug":"fifa-futsal-world-cup-iran-defeats-paraguay-to-reach-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/09\/24\/fifa-futsal-world-cup-iran-defeats-paraguay-to-reach-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Futsal World Cup: Iran defeats Paraguay to reach semifinals [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press TV &#8211; BUCARAMANGA, <strong>Iran\u00a0have reached the semifinals\u00a0of the 2016\u00a0Futsal World Cup\u00a0for the 1st time since 1992, following a 4-3 victory over Paraguay\u00a0in Colombia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20160925\/3d153459-2fd0-4ab0-af2f-21a2da401b2b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Iran were on the front foot in the early stages of the game on Saturday, but it was Paraguay who opened the scoring in the 13th minute through Francisco Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>Iran pressed for an equalizer and found it 3 minutes later when Ahmad Esmaeilpour fired a powerful strike into the back of the net to make it 1-all.<\/p>\n<p>The South Americans took the lead again just before halftime as Juan Salas himself bundled the ball in at the back post. But Iran pulled level once more, this time through Mahdi Javid.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranians moved ahead for the first time in the game in the 36th minute as Javid scored his second goal of the night to make it 3-2, but Rene Villalba, sporting the keeper\u2019s shirt, fired a low free-kick to take it to extra time.<\/p>\n<p>And it was Esmaeilpour who hammered home from close range with 23 seconds to go to secure Iran a precious 4-3 victory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R323hK_9KyE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press TV &#8211; BUCARAMANGA, Iran\u00a0have reached the semifinals\u00a0of the 2016\u00a0Futsal World Cup\u00a0for the 1st time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal"],"views":4510,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26139","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}