{"id":11425,"date":"2010-08-15T08:06:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T15:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/15\/ghotbi-weighing-options\/"},"modified":"2010-08-15T08:06:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T15:06:17","slug":"ghotbi-weighing-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/15\/ghotbi-weighing-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghotbi weighing options"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran coach Afshin Ghotbi has started weighing his options  for the starting line-up as they prepare for the AFC Asian Cup Qatar  2011\u2122<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli are eyeing to end a 36-year continental title drought in Doha next year.<\/p>\n<p>Iran defeated Armenia 3-1 in a friendly last week but Ghotbi was not that impressed with <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/far007.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/m.jpg?w=460\" height=\"240\" width=\"353\" \/>the side\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe  were not an organised team in the first half and conceded one goal but  changed our line-up after the break and fought back with three goals,\u201d  he said after a team\u2019s training session of the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur  objective is to find the best line-up for the AFC Asian Cup. Hopefully,  our players who accompanied the team to Armenia are capable to be in the  Iran set-up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three-time Asian champions have been drawn in a  tough group alongside reigning Asian champions Iraq, DPR Korea and UAE  for the Doha extravaganza.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran coach Afshin Ghotbi has started weighing his options for the starting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3868,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425","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=11425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}