{"id":42194,"date":"2021-04-21T10:55:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42194"},"modified":"2021-04-21T10:55:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T17:55:23","slug":"iran-advance-to-fifa-futsal-world-cup-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/04\/21\/iran-advance-to-fifa-futsal-world-cup-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran advance to FIFA Futsal World Cup 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran will represent Asia at the FIFA Futsal World Cup Lithuania 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AFC Executive Committee has agreed to the criteria of establishing the AFC\u2019s representatives for the World Cup, following the cancellation of the AFC Futsal Championship Kuwait 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AFC Executive Committee decided to combine two sets of criteria \u2013 the first takes reference from the top five teams of the most recent edition (the AFC Futsal Championship Chinese Taipei 2018), and the second applies a point system which calculates the top five teams from the overall ranking of the last three editions of the AFC Futsal Championship (i.e., 2014, 2016 and 2018 editions).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the results of Criteria 1 and 2, the top three recurring teams \u2013 Iran, Japan and Uzbekistan \u2013 will be nominated as the AFC\u2019s representatives for the global futsal showpiece, which is scheduled to take place from September 12 to October 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, playoff matches will be organized for the remaining teams \u2013 Iraq, Lebanon, Thailand, and Vietnam \u2013 to determine the final two slots for Asia, with the\u00a0draw to be held next week\u00a0at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran will represent Asia at the FIFA Futsal World Cup Lithuania&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,88,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":817,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42194","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=42194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42196,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42194\/revisions\/42196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}