{"id":37202,"date":"2019-08-09T11:25:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37202"},"modified":"2019-08-09T11:25:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T18:25:40","slug":"afc-futsal-club-championship-mes-sungun-impress-in-opener-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/08\/09\/afc-futsal-club-championship-mes-sungun-impress-in-opener-video\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Futsal Club Championship: Mes Sungun impress in opener [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; BANGKOK, <strong>Defending champions Mes Sungun Varseqan and Nagoya Oceans showed their class in their Group D opening matches at the AFC Futsal Club Championship Thailand 2019 on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mes Sungun began their title defence in style with a convincing 8-2 win over debutants Kazma SC of Kuwait at the Bangkok Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Islamic Republic of Iran club lead the Group D standings by a superior goal difference over three-time champions Nagoya Oceans, who came back from a goal down to defeat United Arab Emirates\u2019 Al Dhafra 4-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saeid Taghizadeh, who scored two goals against Kazma, was pleased with his team\u2019s performance and stressed that Mes Sungun have their eyes fixed on the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m really happy and thank God we won this game and grabbed three points. The first match is always the toughest but we could manage it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Kazma team played well. Hopefully we can continue this method and this way of playing and become champions for the second consecutive year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mes Sungun head coach Esmaeil Taghipour was happy with the victory over Kazma but wants Mes Sungun to score more goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is our first match but we played well and I\u2019m happy we came up with the win. Kazma is a good side, they looked dangerous at times, but we could read their game and in the end it worked out for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMes Sungun\u2019s aim is to score as many goals as possible. We are here to win, but at the same time the goals are important to us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Highlights M08 - Mes Sungun Varzeqan(IRN) vs Kazma SC(KUW)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/58M9sISH4-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; BANGKOK, Defending champions Mes Sungun Varseqan and Nagoya Oceans showed their class in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37202","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":950,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37202","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=37202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37204,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37202\/revisions\/37204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}