{"id":51128,"date":"2024-04-28T13:27:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51128"},"modified":"2024-04-28T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T20:27:31","slug":"iran-wins-2024-afc-futsal-asian-cup-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/04\/28\/iran-wins-2024-afc-futsal-asian-cup-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran wins 2024 AFC Futsal Asian Cup [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA &#8211; BANGKOK, <strong>IR Iran claim a record 13th continental title, seeing off hosts Thailand to win the AFC Futsal Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Continental superpower IR Iran have claimed a record 13th AFC Futsal Asian Cup title, swatting aside hosts Thailand 4-1 in an entertaining final in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli were imperious across the past fortnight in Thailand, reeling off six straight victories and trailing for less than 20 minutes all told at a tournament where they played with control, speed and a clinical edge in front of goal.<\/p>\n<p>In front of a capacity crowd at the Bangkok Arena, goals from Mahdi Karimi and tournament MVP Ahmadabbasi inside the first five minutes put Iran into a commanding early position.<\/p>\n<p>Thai captain Jirawat Sornwichian pulled a goal back five minutes after the restart but that was as close as the hosts came, with Iran immediately asserting control once more.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh restored the two-goal advantage before keeper Bagher Mohammadi got in on the action, launching a long shot into an empty net to round out the 4-1 result with five minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to the Asian summit after a six-year absence should fill Iran with real belief that they can translate that form on to the global stage as they aim to better a third-place finish at Colombia 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the finalists in securing qualification for Uzbekistan 2024 were Tajikistan and Asian Cup debutants Afghanistan. In a sign of the growing competitiveness of the sport on the continent, Vietnam \u2013 who had featured at the past two global finals \u2013 and Japan both failed to qualify. Japan\u2019s capitulation was certainly eye-catching with the defending Asian Cup champions stunningly failing to progress from the group.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Myanmar won their first ever continental match, Kuwait failed to reach the quarter-finals for the first time since 2012 and Kyrgyz Republic came within one match of securing a maiden World Cup berth.<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA Futsal World Cup Uzbekistan 2024\u2122 gets under way on 14 September.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#ACFutsal2024 | Final : Thailand 1 - 4 Islamic Republic Of Iran\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9uvo6Wy2jIo?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA &#8211; BANGKOK, IR Iran claim a record 13th continental title, seeing off hosts Thailand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,84,88,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51128","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":1181,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51128","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=51128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51130,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51128\/revisions\/51130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}