{"id":30524,"date":"2018-01-22T16:28:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T00:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30524"},"modified":"2018-01-22T16:28:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T00:28:27","slug":"afc-iran-to-face-azerbaijan-ahead-of-title-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/01\/22\/afc-iran-to-face-azerbaijan-ahead-of-title-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC: Iran to face Azerbaijan ahead of title defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; BAKU, <strong>The Islamic Republic of Iran, preparing for the AFC Futsal Championship 2018, are in Baku to play two friendlies with the Azerbaijan Republic team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli, who recently beat Belarus 5-0 and 2-1 with Ahmad Esmaeilpour and Asghar Hasanzadeh scoring a goal apiece on both occasions, will play Azerbaijan on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, who are preparing for their defence of the AFC Futsal Championship title &#8211; which will be held in Chinese Taipei on February 1-11 &#8211; are drawn in Group C alongside Iraq, China PR and Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen teams are divided into four groups with the top two sides in each section advancing to the knockout phase.<\/p>\n<p>Iran won their 11th AFC Futsal Championship title after beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final of the 2016 edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; BAKU, The Islamic Republic of Iran, preparing for the AFC Futsal Championship 2018,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30524","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":1516,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30524","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=30524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}