{"id":53235,"date":"2025-05-01T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53235"},"modified":"2025-05-01T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T17:59:00","slug":"iran-start-2025-beach-soccer-world-cup-on-high-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/05\/01\/iran-start-2025-beach-soccer-world-cup-on-high-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran start 2025 Beach Soccer World Cup on high [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; VICTORIA, <strong>Iran staved off a late fightback from debutants Mauritania to start their FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Seychelles 2025 Group B campaign with a 5-4 win on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran survived a spirited fight from Mauritania after Ali Naderi\u2019s side had gone four goals up in the first period with Cheikh Belkheir\u2019s hat-trick nearly forcing the match into extra-time.<\/p>\n<p>Bicycle kicks from Ali Mirshekari and Movahed Mohammadpour put the AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup Thailand 2025 champions in control. <\/p>\n<p>Belkheir pulled a goal back but Mahdi Shiri\u2019s exquisite volley and Mohammadali Mokhtair\u2019s free-kick made sure Iran went into the first break with a 4-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Mokhtari added to the score early in the second period before Belkheir again reduced the deficit with Iran holding a 5-2 lead heading into the final period, the-afc.com reported.<\/p>\n<p>Mauritania seized the upper hand in the third period with Ahmedou Bilal\u2019s strike before Belkheir&#8217;s third goal with two minutes left to play made it a nervous ending for the Iranians, who ultimately hung on to claim maximum points.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will meet Paraguay on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u062e\u0644\u0627\u0635\u0647 \u0641\u0648\u062a\u0628\u0627\u0644 \u0633\u0627\u062d\u0644\u06cc \u0645\u0648\u0631\u06cc\u062a\u0627\u0646\u06cc 4 - \u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646 5\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X6ztUA_Zq10?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>Tehran Times &#8211; VICTORIA, Iran staved off a late fightback from debutants Mauritania to start&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1460,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53235","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=53235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53237,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53235\/revisions\/53237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}