{"id":51150,"date":"2024-04-30T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51150"},"modified":"2024-04-30T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:00:16","slug":"fifa-afc-congratulate-iran-on-asian-futsal-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/04\/30\/fifa-afc-congratulate-iran-on-asian-futsal-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA, AFC congratulate Iran on Asian futsal championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; BANGKOK, <strong>The heads of the World Football Federation and the Asian Football Confederation have congratulated Iran\u2019s national futsal team on their championship in the AFC Futsal Asian Cup competitions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Gianni Infantino and Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al Khalifah extended their respective felicitations to Team Melli Futsal on their victory a day earlier after the squad beat hosts Thailand to be crowned the games\u2019 champions edit.<\/p>\n<p>Led by renowned former Iranian player Vahid Shamsaei, the Iranian team convincingly triumphed in all their matches en route to reaching the final.<\/p>\n<p>The final showdown in Bangkok saw the Iranian side soar past the Thais 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, Uzbekistan had secured the third place by winning a penalty shootout 3-1 after an exhilarating play-off against Tajikistan that had ended in a 5-5 draw.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 AFC Futsal Asian Cup, the 17th edition of the biennial international futsal championship, took place in Thailand from April 17 to 28.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi also extended his congratulations to the Iran men\u2019s national futsal team for their splendid victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; BANGKOK, The heads of the World Football Federation and the Asian Football Confederation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,88,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":969,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51150","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=51150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51152,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51150\/revisions\/51152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}