{"id":10866,"date":"2010-01-09T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T18:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/01\/09\/ghotbi-iran-football-is-political\/"},"modified":"2010-01-09T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T18:49:12","slug":"ghotbi-iran-football-is-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/01\/09\/ghotbi-iran-football-is-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghotbi: Iran&#8217;s football is political"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">MNA &#8211; Afshin Ghotbi said that Iranian football has extremely become a political<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ghotbilarge.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"336\" alt=\"ghotbilarge\" style=\"float: right;\" \/>battleground which is too hard to work in.\u00a0<br \/>Iran\u2019s coach participated in the Singapore vs. Iran post-match press conference at the Bishan Stadium. The Iranians defeated their host 3-1 in Group E Asian Cup 2011 qualifier and advanced to the final round which will be held in Qatar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, Iran\u2019s football has unfortunately become a political battleground. As we all saw the stadium\u2019s atmosphere was marred by skirmishes and in my opinion it is too hard to work in this condition,\u201d Ghotbi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made efforts to beat Singapore and eventually we qualified for the Asian Cup 2011. I dedicate this victory to all Iranians, in particular to Nasser Hejazi (former Iran keeper who was recently discharged from hospital),\u201d the 45-year-old added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; Afshin Ghotbi said that Iranian football has extremely become a politicalbattleground which is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4623,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}