{"id":27248,"date":"2017-02-17T15:38:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T23:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27248"},"modified":"2017-02-17T15:38:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T23:38:39","slug":"iran-wins-persian-beach-soccer-cup-after-defeating-italy-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/17\/iran-wins-persian-beach-soccer-cup-after-defeating-italy-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran wins Persian Beach Soccer Cup after defeating Italy  [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BUSHEHR, <strong>Iran lifted the Persian Beach Soccer Cup trophy with three wins over Poland, Ukraine and Italy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran, who had already defeated Poland 3-1 and Ukraine 8-7 in penalty shootout,  gave their home fans plenty to cheer in Bushehr on Thursday as they defeated Italy 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Ahmadzadeh scored twice and Mohammadali Mokhtari and Mostafa Kiani was on target for Team Melli while Francesco Corosiniti, Paolo Palmacci and Emanuele Zurlo scored for Italian team.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Poland and Ukraine &#8211; European champions and Euro Beach Soccer League winners respectively &#8211; went head to head in another close-fought contest.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Glutskyi, Oleksii Illichov and Oleg Zborovskyi were on target as Ukraine dominated the first period and much of the second, only for Piotr Klepczarek and an Illichov own-goal to reduce the arrears going into the final few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>But Viktor Panteleichuk stemmed the Polish tide and sealed the win with the fourth and final goal, ultimately ensuring Ukraine second place ahead of Italy and Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Amirhossein Akbari from Iran was named as the Most Valuable Player of the three-day tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s Gabriele Gori became the top goalscorer of the competition and Ukraine\u2019s Volodymyr Hladchenko won the Best Goalkeeper Award.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EAf2hMs2JOA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EAf2hMs2JOA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BUSHEHR, Iran lifted the Persian Beach Soccer Cup trophy with three wins&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3314,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27248","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=27248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}