{"id":43542,"date":"2021-09-11T09:08:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T16:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43542"},"modified":"2021-09-11T09:08:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T16:08:19","slug":"iran-aims-for-title-in-2021-futsal-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/09\/11\/iran-aims-for-title-in-2021-futsal-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran aims for title in 2021 Futsal World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUANAS, <strong>Iran&#8217;s national futsal team is aiming to win the title in the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will start the campaign in Lithuania on Tuesday with a match against Serbia in Group F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli will also play the USA and Argentina in the group stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will enter its eighth FIFA Futsal World Cup campaign as a genuine challenger, having lifted the AFC Futsal Championship trophy 12 times, the-afc.com reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranians made history in 2016 by finishing third, the best-ever achievement by an Asian team, and head coach Mohammed Nazemosharia is aiming for the title in Lithuania 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nazemosharia has retained most of the 2016 squad with the likes of Mahdi Javid, Hossein Tayebi, and captain Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh &#8211; a four-time AFC Futsal Player of the Year &#8211; leading the charge with defending champion Argentina the toughest hurdle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>History:<\/strong>&nbsp;7 previous appearances &#8211; 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016; 12-time Asian champions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Form<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; 3W: Thailand (5-1), Belarus (8-2, 5-1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Players to Watch:<\/strong>&nbsp;Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh, Mahdi Javid, Hossein Tayebi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Challengers:<\/strong>&nbsp;Serbia (Sept 14), USA (Sept 17), Argentina (Sept 20)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUANAS, Iran&#8217;s national futsal team is aiming to win the title in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,88,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43542","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":868,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43542","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=43542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43544,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43542\/revisions\/43544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}