{"id":30563,"date":"2018-01-26T13:51:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30563"},"modified":"2018-01-26T13:51:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:51:18","slug":"fernando-santos-wary-of-dangerous-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/01\/26\/fernando-santos-wary-of-dangerous-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Santos wary of dangerous Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; LISBON,<strong> Portugal coach Fernando Santos has warned his team about Iran\u2019s threat in the 2018 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Portugal and Spain stand out as the favorites to progress from Group B, but in Iran and Morocco they have been drawn against two tricky teams who are absolutely capable of bloodying noses.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal will face Iran in their final group stage match in Saransk on June 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran have a very experienced coach (Carlos Queiroz) and they are a dangerous team. Iran participated in the last World Cup and they had a chance to advance to the next round until their last game,\u201d Santos said in an interview with wort.lu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember that when we arrived at the UEFA Euro 2016, they underestimated Icelanders. I was alert at that time and they are at the World Cup again. We will take nothing for granted when we face our rivals at the 2018 World Cup,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran are a very strong team. In qualifying round, they did not lose a single match and only conceded two goals in their last game with Syria, when everything was decided,\u201d Santos said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everybody knows what Carlos has done with his team. Iran without having won a great title, are a difficult team,\u201d the Portugal coach concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; LISBON, Portugal coach Fernando Santos has warned his team about Iran\u2019s threat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":3547,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30563","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=30563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}