{"id":23462,"date":"2015-12-01T16:47:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T00:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23462"},"modified":"2015-12-01T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T01:00:44","slug":"i-could-not-save-azizis-strike-mark-bosnich-reveals-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/12\/01\/i-could-not-save-azizis-strike-mark-bosnich-reveals-video\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I could not save Azizi\u2019s strike\u2019, Mark Bosnich Reveals [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; Canberra, <strong>Former Socceroos goalkeeper Mark Bosnich said Khodadad Azizi sent the ball out of his hands in Australia versus Iran mach in the 1998 World Cup qualifier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having drawn 1-1 with Australia in the first leg of the qualification play-off in Tehran, Iran drew 2-2 with Socceroos at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and advanced to the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Azizi, indeed, set up Karim Bagheri to reduce the deficit on 71 minutes, before silencing the vast majority of the 85,000-plus fans with 75th-minute equalizer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of us were waiting to advance to the 1998 World Cup but Iran proved that the match is never over until the final whistle blows,\u201d Bosnich said in a telephone interview with 90 (sport TV program in Iran).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn&#8217;t underestimate Iran but they were determined to book a place in the World Cup,\u201d former Manchester United goalie said.<\/p>\n<p>After Australia was led by two goals, Peter Hore cut up Iran&#8217;s goal net, causing a halt in play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no excuse. It was our fault. The Iranian team played better. When Khodadad Azaizi wanted to open my goal I concentrated on his strike but he sent the ball out of my hands. I failed to save his strike,\u201d Bosnich added.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-WjERV6XXoM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-WjERV6XXoM<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; Canberra, Former Socceroos goalkeeper Mark Bosnich said Khodadad Azizi sent the ball out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":23463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,142,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-memory-lane","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":3786,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}