{"id":27482,"date":"2017-03-12T00:05:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T08:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27482"},"modified":"2017-03-12T00:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T08:05:51","slug":"mirshamsi-praises-irans-title-winning-display-in-beach-soccer-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/12\/mirshamsi-praises-irans-title-winning-display-in-beach-soccer-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirshamsi praises Iran&#8217;s title winning display in Beach Soccer Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA TERENGGANU, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran head coach Mohammad Hoseyn Mirshamsi has praised the performance of his players after they lifted the AFC Beach Soccer Championship Malaysia 2017 title on Saturday thanks to a 7-2 thrashing of the United Arab Emirates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranians established a healthy 3-0 lead in the first period, before seeing off a brief UAE rally to be crowned worthy champions of Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were ready for this game and we knew that the UAE were tired as it was a tough semi-final game against Lebanon for them,\u201d Mirshamsi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think today\u2019s game was easy for us. The most important advantage that we had over the UAE today was physical fitness. We were thankful for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking back, I think our most difficult match in this competition was our encounter against Japan in the semi-finals, but we analysed the UAE\u2019s games and I believe we were ahead of them in terms of tactics and technique.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having qualified for the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, along with losing finalists the UAE and third-placed Japan, Mirshami believes Asia is now well placed to challenge for honours come April\u2019s global extravaganza in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is good that Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Japan are all representing Asia [at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe we now have a strong Asian presence at the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photos: AFC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA TERENGGANU, Islamic Republic of Iran head coach Mohammad Hoseyn Mirshamsi has praised&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,141,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":2476,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482","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=27482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}