{"id":26906,"date":"2017-01-10T20:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26906"},"modified":"2017-01-10T20:00:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T04:00:58","slug":"iran-discovers-fate-at-afc-beach-soccer-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/01\/10\/iran-discovers-fate-at-afc-beach-soccer-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran discovers fate at AFC Beach Soccer Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran learned its opponents on Tuesday when the AFC Beach Soccer Championship\u2019s official draw took place in the Malaysian capital.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran has been pitted against Bahrain, China PR, Malaysia and Afghanistan in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>The competition will be held in Pantai Batu Buruk, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia from March 4 to 11.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning champion Oman has been drawn in Group B along with Lebanon, Uzbekistan, and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Japan, runner-up to Oman in 2015, is looking to claim a third title following its wins in 2009 and 2011, and has been draw in Group C alongside 2007 and 2008 champion United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq and Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Group A: IR Iran, Bahrain, China PR, Malaysia, Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>Group B: Oman, Lebanon, Uzbekistan, Thailand<\/p>\n<p>Group C: Japan, UAE, Iraq, Qatar<\/p>\n<p>The group winners and the best second-placed team from the three groups will qualify for the semi-final, the winners of which will advance to the final.<\/p>\n<p>The top three teams will fly the Asian flag at the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in the Bahamas which is scheduled to begin on April 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran learned its opponents on Tuesday when the AFC Beach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,141,84,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news"],"views":2565,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26906","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=26906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}