{"id":11760,"date":"2010-12-31T15:58:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T23:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/31\/iran-team-elated-ahead-of-asian-cup\/"},"modified":"2010-12-31T15:58:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T23:58:05","slug":"iran-team-elated-ahead-of-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/31\/iran-team-elated-ahead-of-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran team &#8216;elated&#8217; ahead of Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"divLead\"><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=\"283\" width=\"386\" \/>PTV &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iranian head coach  Afshin Qotbi has said that his players are prepared to face the  challenges of 2011 AFC Asian Cup, which will start in Qatar next week.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Fortunately, the players in the Qatar&#8217;s camp are in high spirits and they have strong motivation,&#8221; he said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Team Melli, which is in Doha for preparation for the continental  football festival, was held to a scoreless draw by Qatar in a friendly  match on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the White Jerseys defeated Qatar&#8217;s Army 7-0.  <\/p>\n<p>The three-time champion Iran is in Group D of the tournament, which  runs from January 7 to 29, with the United Arab Emirates, North Korea  and Iraq.   <\/p>\n<p>Qatar will take on Uzbekistan on January 7. Both teams are in Group A along with Kuwait and China.  <\/p>\n<p>The Iranian squad is scheduled to meet defending champion Iraq on January 11 in its first Group D encounter. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; DOHA, Iranian head coach Afshin Qotbi has said that his players are prepared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3306,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11760","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=11760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11760\/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=11760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}