{"id":11401,"date":"2010-08-09T01:16:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T08:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/09\/persians-yearn-for-asian-cup-after-35-years\/"},"modified":"2010-08-09T01:16:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T08:16:21","slug":"persians-yearn-for-asian-cup-after-35-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/09\/persians-yearn-for-asian-cup-after-35-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Persians yearn for Asian Cup after 35 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mehrnews.com\/mehr_media\/image\/2010\/07\/554944_orig.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"287\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football coach Afshin Ghotbi said that he aims to end the Iranian\u2019s title-draught in the AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The three-time Asian champion has not won the trophy since 1976 and Ghotbi promised this losing streak will come to end in the upcoming Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to succeed in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup and win the title. This is our first priority in the event. If we win the title, without doubt, the number of Iranian fans will increase,\u201d Ghotbi said in a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play a friendly against Armenia on Wednesday. Ghotbi believes Armenia is a good team who showed a good performance playing powerhouse Spain in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArmenia lost to Spain 2-1. I believe we will be facing an organized team.\u00a0 To build a well-prepared team we shouldn\u2019t miss opportunities,\u201d Iran football coach concluded.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football coach Afshin Ghotbi said that he aims to end the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3327,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}