{"id":27425,"date":"2017-03-07T14:05:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27425"},"modified":"2017-03-07T14:05:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:05:50","slug":"afc-beach-soccer-championship-group-a-china-0-10-iran-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/07\/afc-beach-soccer-championship-group-a-china-0-10-iran-video\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Beach Soccer Championship &#8211; Group A: China 0-10 Iran [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA TERANGGANU, <strong>Group A winners\u2019 ticket to the 2017 AFC Beach Soccer Championship semi-finals will now be contested between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Bahrain after the Iranians whipped China PR 10-0 in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both Iran and the Bahrainis recorded their third straight win on Tuesday with their crunch tie being their group\u2019s last game on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Iran expressed their strong intentions as Mohammadali Mokhtari opened the scoring in great fashion after receiving from an Ali Mirshekari bicycle kick in the first minute of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s talismanic scorer Farid Boulokbashi then got in the side\u2019s second, his eighth in the competition, before Moslem Mesigar also scored shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>Mokhtari then added another, his number six in the tournament, after beating keeper Jiang Wen Tao and a defender to make it 4-0 before the fifth was added by Seyed Hosseini as his tap-in rolled easily between the Chinese custodian\u2019s hands to end the first period.<\/p>\n<p>A free-kick by Seyed Nazem added Iran\u2019s sixth before Mokhtari recorded his third in the tie with a beautiful volley, followed by a strong Mohammad Moradi strike that hit the bar before going into the net.<\/p>\n<p>Amir Akbari then scored Iran\u2019s ninth as his strike bounced off keeper Chang Rui Qi\u2019s hands to end the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Come the third period, a Boulakbashi free-kick went wide before his strike five minutes from time made Iran\u2019s 10th and only goal in the period that capped off the Iranians\u2019 fine performance.<\/p>\n<p>The top three finishers at the AFC Beach Soccer Championship will represent Asia at the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, which is scheduled to be held in in Nassau, Bahamas from April 27 to May 7.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#AFCBeachSoccer2017 - M14 China PR vs  Islamic Republic of Iran -  News Report\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/maUbmT7l2PI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA TERANGGANU, Group A winners\u2019 ticket to the 2017 AFC Beach Soccer Championship&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,141,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":3203,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27425","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=27425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}