{"id":31875,"date":"2018-05-15T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T19:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31875"},"modified":"2018-05-15T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T19:33:24","slug":"afc-womens-futsal-championship-2018-grand-welcome-for-champions-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/05\/15\/afc-womens-futsal-championship-2018-grand-welcome-for-champions-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Women&#8217;s Futsal Championship 2018: Grand welcome for champions Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s victorious AFC Women\u2019s Futsal Championship 2018 squad have returned to a heroes\u2019 welcome after being crowned Asian champions for a second time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sharzad Mozafar-coached side, hailed the \u201cQueens of Asia\u2019 by the Iran media, was greeted by a crowd of supporters and officials as they continued to celebrate their second AFC Women\u2019s Futsal Championship title won with a 5-2 win over Japan in Bangkok on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The victorious players received bouquets of flowers and posed for pictures, with captain Nasimeh Gholami, Thailand 2018 Most Valuable Player Fershteh Karimi and Top scorer award-winner Sara Shirbeigi among the most sought-after individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran President Mehdi Taj was also on hand to welcome home the players, including the outstanding goalkeeper Farzaneh Tavassoli, whose teammates have nicknamed her the \u2018Asian Eagle.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The victory has been excitedly celebrated in the country, with football\u2019s all-time international goal-scoring record-holder Ali Daei and current Team Melli head coach Carlos Queiroz just some of the football luminaries to pass on messages of congratulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s victorious AFC Women\u2019s Futsal Championship 2018 squad have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,91,86,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-womens"],"views":634,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875","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=31875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31877,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875\/revisions\/31877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}