{"id":26606,"date":"2021-07-06T19:31:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=26606"},"modified":"2021-07-06T19:31:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:01:40","slug":"iran-suffers-defeat-against-latvia-at-fiba-u19-basketball-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/26606\/iran-suffers-defeat-against-latvia-at-fiba-u19-basketball-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran suffers defeat against Latvia at FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Iran suffered their second loss in a row at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Iran were defeated against hosts Latvia 58-48.<\/p>\n<p>Parsa Fallah scored 16 points for Iran, while Latvian Kristians Feierbergs earned 17 points.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia defeated Puerto Rico 84-64 in the same group.<\/p>\n<p>Iran began the campaign on Saturday with an 88-67 loss against Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play Puerto Rico on Tuesday in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>The 15th edition of the U19 global showcase tipped off with a limited number of fans being allowed into the games &#8211; something that seemed unimaginable just a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, which runs from July 3-11 and is being held in Riga and Daugavpils, in Latvia.<\/p>\n<p>The Baltic country is hosting the event for a second time, following 2011. The United States go into the 2021 edition as the reigning champions from 2019 and the winners of seven of the previous 14 tournaments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Iran suffered their second loss in a row at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup on Sunday. Iran were defeated against hosts Latvia 58-48. Parsa Fallah scored 16 points for Iran, while Latvian Kristians Feierbergs earned 17 points. Serbia defeated Puerto Rico 84-64 in the same group. Iran began the campaign on Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7132],"tags":[7948],"class_list":["post-26606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-en","tag-basketball"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}