{"id":27485,"date":"2017-03-12T00:07:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T08:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27485"},"modified":"2017-03-12T00:07:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T08:07:53","slug":"marco-octavio-iran-deserved-to-win-afc-beach-soccer-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/12\/marco-octavio-iran-deserved-to-win-afc-beach-soccer-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Octavio: Iran deserved to win AFC Beach Soccer title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; RIO, <strong>Former Iran beach soccer head coach Marco Octavio congratulates the AFC Beach Soccer title and stated the Iranian players deserve such success.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy to see my former players win the title. I\u2019d like to congratulate the federation, coaches and specially the brave Iranian players,\u201d Octavio told Tehran Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know they have worked hard for this title and book a place in the World Cup again,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian coach then added that he is eager to return to Iran in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope someday I could return to Iran to make the same legacy in beach soccer. I had wonderful time working in Iran working with clubs and national team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m currently in Brazil studying some offers,\u201d he replied to the question about his current situation.<\/p>\n<p>Iran were crowned AFC Beach Soccer Championship Malaysia 2017 champions on Saturday after beating the United Arab Emirates 7-2 in Kuala Terengganu.<\/p>\n<p>Octavio led Iran to the 6th place at the 2015 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Portugal only to suffer a 5-4 defeat against the eventual runners-up Tahiti in the quarter-final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; RIO, Former Iran beach soccer head coach Marco Octavio congratulates the AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,141,84,91,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2713,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27485","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=27485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}