{"id":29302,"date":"2017-10-04T13:33:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29302"},"modified":"2017-10-04T13:33:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:33:50","slug":"samsung-beach-soccer-intercontinental-cup-2017-iran-to-take-on-mexico-paraguay-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/10\/04\/samsung-beach-soccer-intercontinental-cup-2017-iran-to-take-on-mexico-paraguay-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup 2017: Iran to take on Mexico, Paraguay &#038; Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Iran men\u2019s national beach soccer team has been drawn in Group B of the Samsung Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup Dubai 2017 in the United Arab Emirates, which is scheduled to kick off at the end of this month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the official draw ceremony at the Dubai Sports Council on Tuesday, Team Melli Saheli joined squads from Mexico, Paraguay and Russia in the preliminary round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Beach Soccer World Cup champion Brazil, Egypt, Portugal and the UAE form Group A in the upcoming sports event.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup Dubai 2017 will take place from October 31 to November 4.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will be played as a round-robin in group stage, after which the top two teams will qualify for the semi-final round.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-finals will be played between the winner of Group A against the Group B runner-up and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>Iran men\u2019s national beach soccer team achieved a commendable second-place finish at the previous edition of the intercontinental cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian squad, which had defeated Tahiti 8-6 in a semi-final match at the Dubai International Marine Club the previous day, lost the title clash of the invitation-only tournament to South American powerhouse Brazil 2-6 on November 5, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Forwards Moslem Mesigar and Mohammad Ahmadzadeh tacked the two goals for the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Russia clinched a narrow 4-3 win over Tahiti\u2019s Tiki Toa (The Warrior Gods) and claimed the third place title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; DUBAI, Iran men\u2019s national beach soccer team has been drawn in Group B&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":22146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,84,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":2952,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29302","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=29302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}