{"id":13187,"date":"2012-10-07T17:44:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T00:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/07\/queiroz-world-cup-qualifiers-are-like-a-marathon\/"},"modified":"2012-10-07T17:44:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T00:44:28","slug":"queiroz-world-cup-qualifiers-are-like-a-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/07\/queiroz-world-cup-qualifiers-are-like-a-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz: World Cup qualifiers are like a marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"queiroz_action_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/queiroz_action_2.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football coach Carlos Queiroz says the World Cup qualification is like the Olympic marathon, not a sprint.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran is scheduled to face South Korea on October 16 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cTo get three points is so important for us since we missed three points against Lebanon. But there are 12 points left. This is like the marathon not a sprint. We will do our best to defeat South Korea,\u201d Carlos Queiroz said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI am sure the Korean team will play more attacking football than Lebanon and our players will find more opportunities to score. We are fully aware of the importance of the match,\u201d the Portuguese added. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI believe that we will show a good performance against South Korea and get a good result against them,\u201d Queiroz concluded. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran is grouped with South Korea, Uzbekistan, Qatar and Lebanon for the final round of the Asian World Cup qualifying stages and need to finish at least second to qualify for Brazil 2014.<br \/>&nbsp; <br \/>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s team is second in Group A, three points under South Korea, who has seven points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football coach Carlos Queiroz says the World Cup qualification is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3447,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187","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=13187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}