{"id":34683,"date":"2018-12-27T11:56:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T19:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34683"},"modified":"2018-12-27T11:56:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T19:56:51","slug":"sami-al-jaber-iran-was-the-best-team-in-1996-afc-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/27\/sami-al-jaber-iran-was-the-best-team-in-1996-afc-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sami Al Jaber: Iran was the best team in 1996 AFC Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tasnim &#8211; RIYADH, <strong>Saudi goalscoring legend Sami Al Jaber admits Iran national football team was the best team in the 1996 AFC Asian Cup in the UAE.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Team Melli, headed by Mohammad Mayeli Kohan, lost to Saudi Arabia in the tournament\u2019s semifinals in penalty shootout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIran had Ali Daei, Khodadad Azizi, Karim Bagheri, Mehdi Mahdavikia,\u201d says Al Jaber. \u201cThey were a top, top team. They were number one in the tournament, the best team and everyone thought they would win the Asian Cup for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut we played a great game, a fantastic defensive game, it was 0-0 and we won on penalties because we had a fantastic goalkeeper in Mohammed Al Daeyea. We won the Asian Cup because he stopped penalties against Iran in the semi-final and against UAE in the final,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; RIYADH, Saudi goalscoring legend Sami Al Jaber admits Iran national football team was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,142,91,93,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":1885,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34683","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=34683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34685,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34683\/revisions\/34685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}