{"id":11455,"date":"2010-08-29T19:33:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T02:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/29\/ghotbi-iran-will-put-an-end-to-title-drought\/"},"modified":"2010-08-29T19:33:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T02:33:35","slug":"ghotbi-iran-will-put-an-end-to-title-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/29\/ghotbi-iran-will-put-an-end-to-title-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghotbi: Iran will put an end to title drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mehrnews.com\/mehr_media\/image\/2010\/05\/538041_orig.jpg\" height=\"242\" width=\"338\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran coach Afshin Ghotbi believes to be able to put an end to Iran&#8217;s 35-year title drought.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>In a recent press conference ahead of Team Melli&#8217;s East-Asia tour on September 3rd and 7th, Ghotbi expressed his satisfaction over the past results of the Iranian football national team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have coached Iran 21 times, 15 of them have been away matches. We have recently played seven warm-up games, four of them have been away games in which we were victorious in three games,&#8221; Ghotbi was quoted by Mehr News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to put an end to the 35-year title drought in the Asian Cup in Doha. Playing with China and South Korea will help us to get ready for the event. China is a good football team and South Korea needs no comment. The Koreans had an outstanding performance in the 2010 World Cup,&#8221; Ghotbi added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will face North Korea, Iraq and the UAE in the 2011 Asian Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran coach Afshin Ghotbi believes to be able to put an end&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3595,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}