{"id":27936,"date":"2017-05-04T17:13:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27936"},"modified":"2017-05-04T17:13:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:13:33","slug":"fifa-third-times-a-charm-for-iran-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/04\/fifa-third-times-a-charm-for-iran-video\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA: Third time&#8217;s a charm for Iran [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA &#8211; NASSAU, <strong>Iran advanced to the semi-finals of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup for the first time in their history with a thrilling 4-3 win after extra time against Switzerland.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>*Iran qualify for semi-finals at Beach Soccer World Cup for first time<br \/>\n*Iran goalkeeper Peyman Hosseini made several saves late in the match<br \/>\n*Iran will meet Tahiti in the semi-finals<br \/>\n*Iran captain Mohammad Ahmadzadeh scored the opening goal of the match with an overhead kick. He then put Iran two goals in front with a superb, one-time volley straight out of the air directly from a throw-in.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland then sprung to life and came all the way back from two goals down to take a 3-2 lead in the second period. The country&#8217;s all-time top scorer in the tournament Dejan Stankovic started their resurgence with a flicked finish. Glenn Hodel then scored a pair of goals to give the Swiss a one-goal lead.<\/p>\n<p>With less than a minute on the clock, Ali Nazem scored a clutch goal for Iran to force the match into extra time. Iran then made history when Mohammed Mokhtari redirected Amir Akbari&#8217;s shot into the net to score the winning goal. <\/p>\n<p>Iran will now face Tahiti in the semi-finals on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Switzerland v Iran | FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2017 | Match Highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mKCEN_9d17s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA &#8211; NASSAU, Iran advanced to the semi-finals of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27936","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":7232,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936","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=27936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}