{"id":29418,"date":"2017-10-13T13:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29418"},"modified":"2017-10-13T13:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:05:15","slug":"fifa-iran-top-group-c-after-costa-rica-win-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/10\/13\/fifa-iran-top-group-c-after-costa-rica-win-video\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA: Iran top Group C after Costa Rica win [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA &#8211; MARGAO, <strong>Iran claimed top spot in Group C at the FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 after a 3-0 victory over Costa Rica in Goa on Friday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Defeat for the central Americans sees them miss out on the knockout stages after earning just one point from three group games.<\/p>\n<p>The Asian side secured their 100 per cent record in the group with two first-half penalties. Captain Mohammad Ghobeishavi opened the scoring with his spot-kick on 25 minutes before Taha Sharaiati emulated his skipper with a penalty finish of his own four minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli cruised through the second half before adding a third goal just before the final whistle through substitute Mohammad Sardari. The only disappointment for Iran at the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium was a second yellow card of the competition for Ghobeishavi, which will rule him out of their Round of 16 match.<\/p>\n<p>*Iran top Group C after beating Costa Rica in Goa<br \/>\n*Team Melli have 100 per cent record at India 2017<br \/>\n*Captain Mohammad Ghobeishavi to miss last 16 match through suspension<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Costa Rica v Iran | FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 | Match Highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bz0zlCv8uDQ?start=1&#038;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; MARGAO, Iran claimed top spot in Group C at the FIFA U-17 World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,170,86,110,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-u17","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":4030,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29418","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=29418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}