{"id":30613,"date":"2018-01-30T12:49:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T20:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30613"},"modified":"2018-01-30T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T20:49:32","slug":"afc-iran-favorites-to-win-afc-futsal-championship-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/01\/30\/afc-iran-favorites-to-win-afc-futsal-championship-title\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC: Iran favorites to win AFC Futsal Championship title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Defending champion Iran is the favourite to lift the title again in Chinese Taipei, the-afc.com reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Nazemosharia\u2019s side prepares to open its defense against Myanmar on Feb 2.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli, who won the Asian Indoors in Ashgabat last year, beating Uzbekistan 7-1 in the final, topped its group during qualification as it maintained a perfect record beating Afghanistan 8-2 and Tajikistan 12-2.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Finals, Iran beat Belarus 5-0 and 2-1 in Tehran. They also played to a 3-3 draw against Azerbaijan before beating them 4-1 in the return leg.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time AFC Futsal Player of the Year Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh will lead a star-studded cast in Chinese Taipei which includes Mahdi Javid, Farhad Tavakoli, Ahmad Esmaeilpour, Moslem Oladghobad and Alireza Rafieepour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Defending champion Iran is the favourite to lift the title again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30613","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":1035,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30613","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=30613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30615,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30613\/revisions\/30615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}