{"id":11709,"date":"2010-12-08T18:07:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T02:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/08\/zob-ahan-chief-content-with-group\/"},"modified":"2010-12-08T18:07:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T02:07:15","slug":"zob-ahan-chief-content-with-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/08\/zob-ahan-chief-content-with-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Zob Ahan chief content with group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"zobahan_castro\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/zobahan_castro.jpg\" height=\"284\" width=\"438\" \/>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Zob Ahan President Asghar Dalili admitted he was relatively pleased with  the outcome of Tuesday\u2019s AFC Champions League 2011 draw and stressed  that the 2010 runners-up are aiming for the title. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Esfahan side, who finished runners-up after losing 3-1 to  Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma in November\u2019s final in Tokyo, were pooled with  Qatar\u2019s knockout competition champions Al Rayyan, Al Shabab of Saudi  Arabia and Emirates, who qualified having won the 2010 UAE President\u2019s  Cup in the same season that saw the Ras Al Khaimah-based side relegated  from the UAE Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not a bad group for us,\u201d admitted Dalili following Tuesday\u2019s ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in Petaling Jaya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe  are targeting the championship so whichever team we are grouped with  should not be big deal for us as we should aim to win every single match  until we have won the title.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan\u2019s run to the decisive  match of the 2010 AFC Champions League saw the Mansour  Ebrahimzadeh-coached side claim a number of notable scalps en route to  the final, including the then defending champions Pohang Steelers and  two-time ACL winners Al Ittihad.<\/p>\n<p>And while Dalili suggests that  the core of the side will remain the same the 2010 Iran Pro League  runners-up are aiming to fine-tune the team ahead of next year\u2019s  continental campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZob Ahan will maintain the same skeleton,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will look at the team more deeply to find out and fix our weaknesses. You will see a stronger Zob Ahan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Zob Ahan President Asghar Dalili admitted he was relatively pleased with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2528,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}