{"id":33122,"date":"2018-08-13T09:37:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33122"},"modified":"2018-08-13T09:37:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:37:44","slug":"afc-futsla-club-championship-2018-mes-sungun-rule-as-other-teams-impress-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/08\/13\/afc-futsla-club-championship-2018-mes-sungun-rule-as-other-teams-impress-review\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Futsla Club Championship 2018: Mes Sungun rule as other teams impress [REVIEW]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; YOGYAKARTA, <strong>Mes Sungun continued IR Iran\u2019s proud record in the competition when they became the fourth Iranian club to win the Continental club championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They join the ranks of Foolad Mahan (2010), Giti Pasand Isfahan (2012) and Tasisat Daryaei (2015).<\/p>\n<p>Mes Sungun started their campaign as title favourites despite being newcomers in the tournament. The club followed the script and marched easily into the Knockout Stage.<\/p>\n<p>Their real tests came when they faced Iraq\u2019s Nafit in the semi-finals and Vietnam\u2019s Thai Son Nam in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Nafit held Mes Sungun 1-1 at halftime but fell 3-2 when the Iranians scored twice in the second half. In the final, the champions came from a goal down in the first half to defeat Thai Son Nam 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Hamid Bigham Tabrizi had a star-studded cast of Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh, Hossein Tayebibidgoli, Alireza Samimi and Farhad Fakhim at his disposal and the Iranians showed their prowess on court throughout the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; YOGYAKARTA, Mes Sungun continued IR Iran\u2019s proud record in the competition when they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-iran-first-division"],"views":484,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122","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=33122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33124,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122\/revisions\/33124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}