{"id":15255,"date":"2013-06-13T06:31:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T13:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=15255"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:29:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:29:39","slug":"south-korea-coach-humiliated-iranians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/06\/13\/south-korea-coach-humiliated-iranians\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea coach &#8216;humiliated Iranians&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN &#8211; SEOUL, <strong>Iran boss Carlos Queiroz has accused his South Korea counterpart Choi Kang-hee of &#8220;humiliating&#8221; the Iranian people by claiming he and his players had been &#8220;badly treated&#8221; in Tehran last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Choi said he had suffered poor hospitality and bad manners when he took his side to the Iranian capital for a 1-0 World Cup qualifying defeat in October.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/soccernet-assets.espn.go.com\/design05\/images\/2012\/0906\/carlosqueiroziranpresentation20110404_275x155.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"155\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlos Queiroz: Unhappy with his South Korea counterpart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And with the two sides meeting again in a crucial Group A game in Ulsan on Tuesday &#8211; the Koreans top the group, with Iran a point behind and with a poorer goal difference &#8211; the South Korea coach said he wanted to stop the Iranians from qualifying for Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would prefer it if third-placed Uzbekistan qualified instead, sparking an irate reaction from Queiroz.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese denied that hospitality in Tehran had been poor and told reporters: &#8220;Choi should apologize to the Iranian people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said the Korean team was badly treated in Iran &#8211; but we gave them the best treatment available. He humiliated the Iranian citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The situation in Group A means a draw on Tuesday would secure automatic qualification for both teams unless Uzbekistan can rack up a big win over Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>And mindful of the impact that goal difference could still have on the group, Quieroz accused South Korea of not maintaining their momentum in their 1-0 win over the Uzbeks on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed: &#8220;South Korea did not do its best in the game against Uzbekistan. I will buy an Uzbek uniform and give it to Choi as a present.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN &#8211; SEOUL, Iran boss Carlos Queiroz has accused his South Korea counterpart Choi Kang-hee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6545,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15255","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}