{"id":34004,"date":"2018-11-05T09:06:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T17:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34004"},"modified":"2018-11-05T09:06:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T17:06:15","slug":"iran-to-face-usa-in-intercontinental-beach-soccer-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/11\/05\/iran-to-face-usa-in-intercontinental-beach-soccer-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to face USA in Intercontinental Beach Soccer Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Iran will start the 8th edition of the Intercontinental Beach Soccer Cup with a match against the USA on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli, who has won the title once in the third edition in 2013, is in Group B along with three-time champion Russia, 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup runner-up Tahiti and the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Octavio\u2019s team will also play Tahiti and Russia in the following days.<\/p>\n<p>Group A consists of the UAE (host), Brazil, Egypt, and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team has come to Dubai with many young players, but with the same experienced core and our experienced coach, Marco Octavio, that have helped us achieve a new level in beach soccer\u201d, Iran goalkeeper Peyman Hosseini said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam Melli has made significant growth in the last years. Now we have a much more professional approach, on all levels. Of course, we respect all teams above all, but we also feel that we are ready to contest against anyone\u201d, he assured.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, which is organized by the Dubai Sports Council (DSC) and Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), will be held in Dubai, the UAE from November 6 to 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBAI, Iran will start the 8th edition of the Intercontinental Beach Soccer Cup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":664,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34004","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=34004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34006,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34004\/revisions\/34006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}