{"id":27472,"date":"2017-03-11T03:15:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T11:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27472"},"modified":"2017-03-11T07:15:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T15:15:09","slug":"afc-president-hails-islamic-republic-of-irans-beach-soccer-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/11\/afc-president-hails-islamic-republic-of-irans-beach-soccer-success\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC President hails Islamic Republic of Iran&#8217;s Beach Soccer success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtejustify\">AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR,\u00a0 <strong>The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa has congratulated the Islamic Republic of Iran after they overcame United Arab Emirates 7-2 in Terengganu, Malaysia, on Saturday\u00a0to capture the AFC Beach Soccer Championship 2017 title.<\/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\">In the earlier third and fourth place match, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/the-afc.com\/afc-beach-soccer-championship-2017\/japan-beat-lebanon-to-claim-last-bahamas-2017-ticket\" target=\"_blank\">Japan edged out Lebanon 6-3 to secure their spo<\/a><\/strong>t, alongside IR Iran and UAE, as Asia\u2019s three representatives at the upcoming FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2017, which will be played in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, from April 27 to May 7, 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Shaikh Salman said: \u201cI would like to congratulate Islamic Republic\u00a0Iran who were a formidable force from start to finish. UAE should also be praised for their brilliant efforts in a captivating final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\u201cAlong with Japan, Asia has three teams of outstanding quality and I am confident that they will do the continent proud in the Bahamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The AFC President also paid tribute to Terengganu, Malaysia and the Local Organising Committee for hosting a memorable tournament. \u201cOn behalf of the Asian football family, I must convey my appreciation to the Terengganu State Sports Council and the Terengganu State Government for their warm hospitality and displaying excellence in organising a truly exceptional competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\u201cThis is the first time the tournament was hosted in Southeast Asia and it once again represents the AFC\u2019s Vision and Mission to better engage with passionate football fans across the continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The newly-crowned champions of Asia have been drawn to face Italy, Mexico and Nigeria in Group B at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2017. Meanwhile, runners-up UAE are in Group C, where they will compete against Panama, Paraguay and Portugal. Third-placed Japan will feature in Group D comprising Brazil, Poland and Tahiti at the Bahamas Beach Stadium in Nassau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">IR Iran will open Asia\u2019s campaign in the Bahamas against Mexico on April 27, 3.30pm (local time). Japan and UAE will begin their conquests\u00a0the following day on April 28 against Poland and Paraguay at 3.30pm and 8pm (local time) respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong><em>Photo: AFC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR,\u00a0 The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,141,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":3201,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27472","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=27472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}