{"id":27394,"date":"2017-03-04T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27394"},"modified":"2017-03-04T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T08:00:05","slug":"iran-to-face-malaysia-in-afc-beach-soccer-championship-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/04\/iran-to-face-malaysia-in-afc-beach-soccer-championship-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to face Malaysia in AFC Beach Soccer Championship opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA TERENGGANU, <strong>Iran to open the AFC Beach Soccer Championship Malaysia 2017 with a match against host Malaysia on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The competition also serves as the qualifiers for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Bahamas 2017 where Asia will be represented by the top three finishers.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli won the 2013 edition of the championship in Doha, Qatar after beating Japan 5-4 on penalties following a 6-6 draw after extra time.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranians have also finished in third place on no less than five occasions &#8211; 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn in Group A along with Malaysia, Bahrain, China and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The competition will take place from March 4 to 11.<\/p>\n<p> AFC Beach Soccer Championship Malaysia 2017 was originally scheduled for January 21\u20132,. 2017, but was postponed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA TERENGGANU, Iran to open the AFC Beach Soccer Championship Malaysia 2017 with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,141,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2861,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27394","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=27394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}