{"id":28091,"date":"2017-05-17T17:36:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T00:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28091"},"modified":"2017-05-17T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T00:36:15","slug":"iran-defeat-mongolia-at-afc-u-20-futsal-championship-opener-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/17\/iran-defeat-mongolia-at-afc-u-20-futsal-championship-opener-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran defeat Mongolia at AFC U-20 Futsal Championship opener [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BANGKOK, <strong>A stirring first half display helped the Islamic Republic of Iran seal a comfortable 6-0 Group D win over Mongolia on Wednesday to announce their arrival at the inaugural AFC U-20 Futsal Championship in some style.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having not played on Matchday One, the Iranians proved too hot to handle for a Mongolian side which only 24 hours earlier had been celebrating an opening day defeat of the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, whose senior side won the 2016 AFC Futsal Championship, raced into a 5-0 lead before half-time as Sahand Rezapour\u2019s brace, as well as goals from Mohammad Taheri, captain Touhid Lofti and Hamzen Kadkhoda, put the game beyond a beleaguered Mongolia at Bangkok\u2019s Hua Mark Indoor Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>To their credit, Mongolia refused to buckle after the break, although they were unable to prevent Mahdi Karimi bagging a sixth for Iran in the 30th minute as the talented West Asians underlined just why they are one of the favourites to advance to the tournament\u2019s knockout phase.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#AFCU20FC THAILAND 2017 - M11 MONGOLIA VS IR IRAN - Highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QN6jgqTNpHo?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>Tehran Times &#8211; BANGKOK, A stirring first half display helped the Islamic Republic of Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,140,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-iran-u19","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":4669,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28091","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=28091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}