{"id":27469,"date":"2017-03-11T03:12:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T11:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27469"},"modified":"2017-03-11T07:14:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T15:14:13","slug":"iran-crowned-2017-afc-beach-soccer-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/11\/iran-crowned-2017-afc-beach-soccer-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran crowned 2017 AFC Beach Soccer champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtejustify\" dir=\"ltr\">AFC &#8211; KUALA TERENGGANU,\u00a0<strong> Islamic Republic of Iran were crowned AFC Beach Soccer Championship Malaysia 2017 champions on Saturday after beating the United Arab Emirates 7-2 in Kuala Terengganu.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-art-full-text field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden in-tfull\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" dir=\"ltr\">The UAE\u2019s Haitham Mohamed opened the match with an impressive effort which Iran goalkeeper Seyed Hosseini saved well, but it was to be Iran who would draw first blood, Moslem Mesigar tapping home from close range to hand his side an early lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" dir=\"ltr\">Clearly boosted by their goal, Iran immediately doubled their advantage through Hosseini\u2019s impressive strike, before Iran skipper Mohammad Ahmadzadeh\u2019s fired a volley just inches wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" dir=\"ltr\">With the UAE failing to make an impression, Iran struck again as Mohammadali Mokhtari\u2019s penalty rounded off a fine first period for the Iranians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamal Ali then went close with a volley as the Emiratis tried to rally. However worse was to come for them as Mesigar\u2019s cool header found the net with keeper Humaid Jamal rooted to the spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" dir=\"ltr\">It was to be Jamal who eventually dragged the UAE back into the game with an impressive finish four minutes from time, a brief glimmer of hope that shone even brighter when Haitham Mohamed scored following neat approach play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" dir=\"ltr\">It was, however, not to be for the UAE, as an accurate Seyed Nazem free-kick, followed by Amir Akbari\u2019s volley and a Mokhtari penalty sealed a win &#8211; and the title &#8211; for the Iranians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong><em>Photo: AFC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA TERENGGANU,\u00a0 Islamic Republic of Iran were crowned AFC Beach Soccer Championship Malaysia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,141,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":3064,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}