{"id":29229,"date":"2017-09-27T14:15:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T21:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29229"},"modified":"2017-09-27T14:15:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T21:15:27","slug":"iran-continue-to-set-the-pace-in-mens-futsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/09\/27\/iran-continue-to-set-the-pace-in-mens-futsal\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran continue to set the pace in men&#8217;s futsal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ASHGABAT, <strong>Iran flexed their muscles to show they remain a powerhouse and end the Ashgabat tournament with impressive stats \u2013 six consecutive wins, 58 goals scored and only 11 conceded.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With their fifth consecutive title in hand, Iran&#8217;s only blemish in Ashgabat was against Thailand (in the quarter-finals) where they were on the backfoot \u2013 two goals down early in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>They would, however, go on to win 10-4.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Seyed Mohammad Nazemalsharieh had even proclaimed that Thailand were their most difficult opponents and the quarter-final showdown proved that. <\/p>\n<p>It was not surprising that they overwhelmed Uzbekistan in the final with their fast-paced attacks, as they showed just why they are ranked among the world\u2019s best.<\/p>\n<p>Technically gifted, Iran had five players in the top 10 of the scoring charts. Besides Mahdi Javid\u2019s 15 goals, only Afghanistan\u2019s Akbar Kazemi posted double digits with 11.<\/p>\n<p>As Uzbekistan team leader Jahangir Usmanov said: \u201cIran are on another level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ASHGABAT, Iran flexed their muscles to show they remain a powerhouse and end&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3407,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29229","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=29229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}