{"id":29434,"date":"2017-10-14T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T23:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29434"},"modified":"2017-10-14T16:09:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T23:09:27","slug":"iran-the-benchmark-for-afc-futsal-championships-2018-hopefuls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/10\/14\/iran-the-benchmark-for-afc-futsal-championships-2018-hopefuls\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran the benchmark for AFC Futsal Championships 2018 hopefuls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TABRIZ, <strong>The Islamic Republic of Iran is the setting as the countdown starts for the AFC Futsal Championship 2018 with the South and Central Zone Qualifiers which kicks off on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the three-team Group B, Iran are the ones to beat and the odds are surely against Tajikistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The futsal powerhouse hold the record of 11 championship titles, and the team have enjoyed much success in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the 2016 AFC Futsal Championship, the Iranians finished third in the FIFA Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016, before claiming their fifth Asian Indoor Games gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>Dangerman Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh, who was named the Most Valuable Player after assisting Iran beat Uzbekistan in the final, will definitely play a huge role in this qualifier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TABRIZ, The Islamic Republic of Iran is the setting as the countdown starts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2433,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29434","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=29434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}