{"id":43580,"date":"2021-09-14T18:08:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T01:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43580"},"modified":"2021-09-14T18:08:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T01:08:24","slug":"iran-starts-2021-futsal-world-cup-on-high-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/09\/14\/iran-starts-2021-futsal-world-cup-on-high-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran starts 2021 Futsal World Cup on high [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; VILNIUS, <strong>Iran defeated Serbia 3-2 in their opening match at the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamid Ahmadi, Farhad Fakhim, and Ahmad Esmaeilpour scored for Iran at the Avia Solutions Group Arena in Vilnius, Lithuania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stojkovic and Tomic were on target for Serbia.<br \/><br \/>Mohammad Nazemasharieh\u2019s men will play the U.S. and defending champions Argentina in Group F on Sept. 17 and 20, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Argentina also defeated the U.S. 11-0 in the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top two teams from each of the six groups will advance to the round of 16 as well as the four best-ranked third-placed teams, with the knockout phase beginning on Sept. 22 and the competition drawing to a close on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video technology is used at the FIFA Futsal World Cup for the first time, with a review operator and pitchside screen available for referees.<br \/><br \/>Iran is competing in their eighth straight Futsal World Cup, more than any other Asian nation.<br \/><br \/>Iran made history by finishing third at the 2016 World Cup, the best-ever result by an Asian team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This tournament was due to be held last year but was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Serbia v IR Iran | FIFA Futsal World Cup 2021 | Match Highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vuhGbxuGdF4?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>Tehran Times &#8211; VILNIUS, Iran defeated Serbia 3-2 in their opening match at the 2021&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,88,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1460,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43580","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=43580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43582,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43580\/revisions\/43582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}