{"id":27456,"date":"2017-03-10T17:05:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T01:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27456"},"modified":"2017-03-10T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T01:41:32","slug":"iran-to-play-uae-in-2017-afc-beach-soccer-championship-final-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/10\/iran-to-play-uae-in-2017-afc-beach-soccer-championship-final-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play UAE in 2017 AFC Beach Soccer Championship Final [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA TERENGGANU, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran booked a date against the United Arab Emirates in the AFC Beach Soccer Championship Malaysia 2017 final and also a place at the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Bahamas after beating Japan 8-6 in Kuala Terengganu on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Japanese will now play Lebanon in the tournament\u2019s third-place Play-off for Asia&#8217;s final slot in the Bahamas. Both the Play-off and the final will take place on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Japan drew first blood through Takasuke Goto&#8217;s neat header, but Iran equalised soon after thanks to a fine strike by skipper Mohammad Ahmadzadeh.<\/p>\n<p>A succession of Iranian attacks then tested Japan\u2019s resolve, the pick of which was a header by Hassan Abdollahi which hit the woodwork.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was Japan who were to regain the lead as Takuya Akaguma struck home from distance after catching custodian Hamid Behzadpour unawares, before Moslem Mesigar delivered a free-kick which skipped off the sand and into the goal to level matters for a second time.<\/p>\n<p>Japan scored a third courtesy of Takaaki Oba, only for Mohammadali Mokhtari to make it 3-3 at the end of an entertaining first period.<\/p>\n<p>Japan duly made it 4-3 following skipper Ozu Moreira\u2019s magnificent free-kick a minute into the second period. Not to be outdone, Iran hit back yet again, Abdollahi\u2019s set-piece striking the post before going in to continue the game\u2019s roller-coaster nature.<\/p>\n<p>Iran went ahead for the first time when Mokhtari claimed his second in the match a minute before the buzzer, and they duly increased their advantage as Ahmadzadeh fired home to double his tally after the restart.<\/p>\n<p>Akaguma then reduced the deficit with an impressive volley, only for Iran to score yet again through Abdollahi and &#8211; despite Goto giving Japanese hopes a brief lift with a late effort &#8211; secure a hard-fought victory. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ChjaSSixKS0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ChjaSSixKS0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA TERENGGANU, Islamic Republic of Iran booked a date against the United Arab&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,141,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27456","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":2752,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27456","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=27456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}