{"id":51908,"date":"2024-09-14T15:34:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T22:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51908"},"modified":"2024-09-14T15:45:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T22:45:37","slug":"iran-to-meet-venezuela-in-2024-futsal-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/09\/14\/iran-to-meet-venezuela-in-2024-futsal-world-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to meet Venezuela in 2024 Futsal World Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TASHKENT, <strong>Defeat to Kazakhstan in the quarter-finals of the 2021 edition dashed Iran&#8217;s hopes of bettering the bronze medal won in 2016 and the reigning AFC Futsal Asian Cup champion will be determined to make up for that heartbreak at Uzbekistan 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran cruised to a 13th Asian crown in April and with a more experienced squad this time around, Iran will fancy its chances of challenging for the title.<\/p>\n<p>Iran opens the tournament against a Venezuela making only its second appearance but having advanced to the Round of 16 in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Asian side will also have to contend with Guatemala (September 19) and France (September 22) for a place in the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>The match will be held on Monday at the Bukhara Universal Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-fifa-futsal-world-cup-group-stage-draw-v0-z5m0ulvx3t2d1-905x609-1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"609\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-fifa-futsal-world-cup-group-stage-draw-v0-z5m0ulvx3t2d1-905x609-1.webp 905w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-fifa-futsal-world-cup-group-stage-draw-v0-z5m0ulvx3t2d1-905x609-1-350x236.webp 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-fifa-futsal-world-cup-group-stage-draw-v0-z5m0ulvx3t2d1-905x609-1-700x471.webp 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-fifa-futsal-world-cup-group-stage-draw-v0-z5m0ulvx3t2d1-905x609-1-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-fifa-futsal-world-cup-group-stage-draw-v0-z5m0ulvx3t2d1-905x609-1-768x517.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TASHKENT, Defeat to Kazakhstan in the quarter-finals of the 2021 edition dashed Iran&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,88,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1500,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51908","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=51908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51916,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51908\/revisions\/51916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}