{"id":27921,"date":"2017-05-04T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27921"},"modified":"2017-05-04T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T22:52:30","slug":"iran-beach-soccer-team-placed-5th-in-world-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/04\/iran-beach-soccer-team-placed-5th-in-world-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Beach Soccer Team placed 5th in World Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran beach soccer is on the verge of surpassing Italy in the world rankings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team is fifth with 2199 points. Team Melli is behind Italy in the rankings who stand at fourth with 2203 points.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal remains the top team with 3440 points.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is second with 3204, followed by Brazil who is third with 2995 points.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is scheduled to meet Switzerland in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup semi-final early Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Iran started the campaign in the Bahamas with a win over Mexico but lost to Italy in its second match.<\/p>\n<p>The Persians advanced to the quarters after defeating Nigeria on penalties.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran beach soccer is on the verge of surpassing Italy in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":5933,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921","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=27921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}