{"id":27977,"date":"2017-05-07T14:54:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T21:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27977"},"modified":"2017-05-08T10:08:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T17:08:55","slug":"fifa-beach-soccer-worl-cup-2017-iran-finish-third-to-make-asian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/07\/fifa-beach-soccer-worl-cup-2017-iran-finish-third-to-make-asian-history\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2017: Iran finish third to make Asian history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA &#8211; NASSAU, <strong>Iran ended their Bahamas 2017 campaign on a high with a 5-3 win against Italy in the play-off for third place to become Asia&#8217;s highest ever finishers at the Beach Soccer World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Iran&#8217;s third-place finish is best ever for Asian Football Confederation<br \/>\n*Italy finishes in fourth place for second consecutive FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup<br \/>\n*Gabriele Gori scores the most goals in a single tournament since Madjer in 2006<\/p>\n<p>These two teams met during the group stage at Bahamas 2017 with Italy edging Iran 5-4 in a thrilling match. The Europeans scored first that day, but it was Iran&#8217;s turn this time. Mohammad Ahmadzadeh scored his seventh goal of the tournament when he put away a second-chance opportunity after Moslem Mesigar&#8217;s shot was parried into his path.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmadzadeh scored his second of the match early in the second period on another second-chance opportunity to take his overall tally to eight.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Mokhtari then struck a phenomenal overhead kick to give Iran a three-goal cushion, which was fitting as Iran have attempted the most overhead kicks of anyone in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Italy got back into the match courtesy of none other than Gabriele Gori. Two goals took him on to 17 &#8211; the second a curling effort from a set piece &#8211; to move him beyond Dejan Stankovic into second place for biggest hauls at a single competition. Less than a minute later, Mesigar scored his second of the tournament. <\/p>\n<p>Dario Ramacciotti brought the Azzurri back to within one goal with a well-placed, close range header. But it wasn&#8217;t enough for the Italians as Ahmadzadeh completed his hat-trick with a late penalty to ultimately seal Iran&#8217;s place in the record books.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Italy v Iran | FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2017 | Match Highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uzshxFt-4Tg?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 ended their Bahamas 2017 campaign on a high with a 5-3&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27977","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":5740,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27977","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=27977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}