{"id":11178,"date":"2010-04-23T19:20:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T02:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/23\/no-fear-of-dpr-korea-says-nekounam\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T19:20:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T02:20:55","slug":"no-fear-of-dpr-korea-says-nekounam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/23\/no-fear-of-dpr-korea-says-nekounam\/","title":{"rendered":"No fear of DPR Korea, says Nekounam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Neko_green\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Neko_green.jpg\" height=\"397\" width=\"394\" \/>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Javad Nekounam\u2019s DPR Korea dread became a reality but the Iran captain  is ready for the challenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nekounam told the-afc.com on this week that of all the teams he  would like to avoid in the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011\u2122 Finals Draw, it was  DPR Korea.<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, Iran were put in Group D with  defending champions Iraq, DPR Korea and United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  did not say I was afraid of them. It is just that I don\u2019t like their  style of football,\u201d Nekounam told the afc.com by phone from Spain soon  after the draw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think our group and Group C are the strongest  in the tournament. I wish we could have been in Group B with Saudi  Arabia to gain revenge after they beat us in the World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut  it didn\u2019t happen and we are looking forward to the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Group  C comprises Korea Republic, India, Australia and Bahrain, while the  Saudis are in Group B with Japan, Jordan and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Group A  features hosts Qatar, Kuwait, China and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Javad Nekounam\u2019s DPR Korea dread became a reality but the Iran captain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5429,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}