{"id":30733,"date":"2018-02-08T20:36:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T04:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30733"},"modified":"2018-02-08T20:39:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T04:39:23","slug":"afc-futsal-championship-2018-road-to-the-semi-finals-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/02\/08\/afc-futsal-championship-2018-road-to-the-semi-finals-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Futsal Championship 2018: Road to the Semi-finals &#8211; Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TAIPEI, <strong>Reigning champions the Islamic Republic of Iran are on the brink of another title to add to their trophy cabinet. Joining them in the semi-finals are Uzbekistan, Japan, and Iraq. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Republic of Iran has breezed through the competition, netting 39 goals in the process as they home in on their 12th title. The Iranians overpowered Myanmar 14-0 in Group C to kick-start their campaign and followed that up with an 11-1 victory against China PR. Mohammad Nazemosharia\u2019s side, however, received some resistance from Iraq in their final group match but picked up a gear to win 5-3. Technically gifted and with a 100 percent record in the tournament, their convincing 9-1 victory over ASEAN powerhouse Thailand in the quarter-finals only proves that they are in a class of their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IR Iran: Tournament Stats<\/strong><br \/>\nGoals scored: 39<br \/>\nGoals conceded: 5<br \/>\nTop scorer: Hossein Tayyebi (11 goals) <\/p>\n<p><strong>AFC Futsal Championship semi-final fixtures (kick-off times are local):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iraq v Japan<\/strong><br \/>\nVenue: Xinzhuang Gymnasium<br \/>\nDate: February 9<br \/>\nKick-off: 1600 hrs<\/p>\n<p><strong>IR Iran v Uzbekistan<\/strong><br \/>\nVenue: Xinzhuang Gymnasium<br \/>\nDate: February 9<br \/>\nKick-off: 1900 hrs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TAIPEI, Reigning champions the Islamic Republic of Iran are on the brink of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30733","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":1410,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30733","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=30733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30736,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30733\/revisions\/30736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}