{"id":11541,"date":"2010-10-02T23:06:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T06:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/02\/nothing-taken-for-granted-against-kuwait\/"},"modified":"2010-10-02T23:06:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T06:06:26","slug":"nothing-taken-for-granted-against-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/02\/nothing-taken-for-granted-against-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing taken for granted against Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"ghotbi_press\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ghotbi_press.jpg\" height=\"302\" width=\"412\" \/>MNA &#8211; AMMAN, <strong>Iran football coach Afshin Ghotbi said his team will take nothing for granted against Kuwait in the final game of the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran beat Iraq 2-1 on Friday and booked a berth in the final game of the event which will be played on Sunday. The Persians will play Kuwait who advanced to the final after beating Yemen in penalty shoot-out.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has won the WAFF title in 2000, 2004, 2007 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKuwait has taken part in the West Asian Championship with a young team. Defeating the team will not be easy for us. We will not underestimate them,\u201d Ghotbi said.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about Iraq, he added, \u201cOur main match against Iraq is in the group stage of the AFC 2011 Asian Cup. Iraq had a good performance against us in the West Asian Championship.\u00a0They will participate in the Asian Cup as the defending champion,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn along with Iraq, North Korea and the UAE in the Asian Cup.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; AMMAN, Iran football coach Afshin Ghotbi said his team will take nothing for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":11341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5252,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541","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=11541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}