{"id":28137,"date":"2017-05-22T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T19:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28137"},"modified":"2017-05-22T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T19:19:06","slug":"afc-u20-futsal-championship-iran-win-again-to-set-up-thailand-semi-final-clash-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/22\/afc-u20-futsal-championship-iran-win-again-to-set-up-thailand-semi-final-clash-video\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC U20 Futsal Championship: Iran win again to set up Thailand semi-final clash [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; BANGKOK, <strong>Ali Arani\u2019s Islamic Republic of Iran team sealed a 6-2 victory over Lebanon at the Hua Mark Indoor Stadium on Monday to secure their semi-final place at the AFC U-20 Futsal Championship 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hussein Albaba gave Lebanon the lead in the fourth minute, prompting an immediate response from Iran through Omid Khani. Further goals from Hamzeh Kadkhoda, captain Touhid Lotfi and a Lebanon own-goal just before the break gave Iran a comfortable 4-1 lead heading into half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Taheri eventually added to Iran\u2019s tally in the second-half, but Lebanon continued to press hard to try to find a way back into the game and were rewarded when Steve Koukezian received a neat back-heel to slot past the Iran keeper. But the Iranians responded immediately with a headed goal from Lotfi, his second of the game, making it 6-2 with five minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Iran set to meet Thailand in the semi-finals on Wednesday, May 24<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nIslamic Republic of Iran:<\/strong> KHANI 5\u2019, KADKHODA 9\u2019, ALBABA \u201819 (OG), LOTFI 15\u2019, TAHERI 29\u2019, LOTFI 35\u2019<br \/>\n<strong>Lebanon:<\/strong> ALBABA 4\u2019, KOUKEZIAN 34\u2019 \u200b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vPKypU0xMjY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vPKypU0xMjY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; BANGKOK, Ali Arani\u2019s Islamic Republic of Iran team sealed a 6-2 victory over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28138,"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-28137","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":5185,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137","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=28137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}