{"id":51125,"date":"2024-04-27T10:43:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T17:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51125"},"modified":"2024-04-27T10:43:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T17:43:01","slug":"iran-coach-shamsaei-confident-ahead-of-afc-futsal-asian-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/04\/27\/iran-coach-shamsaei-confident-ahead-of-afc-futsal-asian-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran coach Shamsaei confident ahead of AFC Futsal Asian Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BANGKOK, <strong>Iran futsal head coach Vahid Shamsaei is confident that his team can beat Thailand in the final match of the AFC Futsal Asian Cup Thailand 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran reached the final after edging Uzbekistan 5-4 on penalties in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are two differences between being a player and a coach. As a player, you&#8217;re focused on yourself, but now with 80 million people watching, the pressure is different. I&#8217;ve experienced two finals as a player, and I&#8217;m grateful for that. I\u2019m also thankful that as a coach, I&#8217;ve reached my second final. However, in the previous edition, I didn&#8217;t expect to lose,\u201d Shamsaei said.<\/p>\n<p>Shamsaei was the tournament top scorer when Japan clinched their second title in 2012 and the Iranian legend is determined to win the crown for the first time as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respect all coaches and professionals. I believe in the short time he (Rodrigo) has improved the Thailand team. Tomorrow is going to be a challenge, and I believe both of us will try to read each other&#8217;s intentions. However, I\u2019m confident that we will win,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BANGKOK, Iran futsal head coach Vahid Shamsaei is confident that his team can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,84,88,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":853,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51125","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=51125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51127,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51125\/revisions\/51127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}