{"id":26431,"date":"2016-11-01T21:08:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T04:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26431"},"modified":"2016-11-02T17:11:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T00:11:16","slug":"iran-defeats-u-s-at-beach-soccer-intercontinental-cup-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/11\/01\/iran-defeats-u-s-at-beach-soccer-intercontinental-cup-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran defeats U.S. at Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup 2016 [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Iran opened the fifth edition of the Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup with a victory over the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli defeated the U.S. 6-2 in Dubai, the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team will face Egypt on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Team Iran claimed the title in the third edition, defeating powerhouse teams Brazil and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn in Group B alongside defending champion Russia, the U.S. and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Group A consists of the UAE, 2014 champion Brazil,  Tahiti and Poland.<\/p>\n<p>The Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup is an international beach soccer tournament which is currently being held in the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation-only tournament has been held annually starting in 2011. It will continue until at least 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The competition bares many similarities to the FIFA Confederations Cup, however is not so strict on entry requirements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tpJFbDissNQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tpJFbDissNQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, Iran opened the fifth edition of the Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2252,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26431","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=26431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}