{"id":11471,"date":"2010-09-08T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T00:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/09\/08\/historic-win-for-iran\/"},"modified":"2010-09-08T17:02:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T00:02:59","slug":"historic-win-for-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/09\/08\/historic-win-for-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic win for Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"shojaei111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/shojaei111.jpg\" height=\"270\" width=\"416\" \/>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran received a massive psychological boost in their preparations for  the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011\u2122 when they defeated Korea Republic 1-0 in a  warm-up match on Tuesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was Iran\u2019s first victory in Korea over the Taeguk Warriors  after 39 years. Their last victory came here in 1971 when they won 2-0  in an international game.<\/p>\n<p>Osasuna midfielder Masoud Shojaei  scored the match-winner in the 33rd minute on a counter attack and gave  Team Melli their second successive victory following their 2-0 victory  over China last week.<\/p>\n<p>Korea, who defeated Nigeria 2-1 under new  coach Cho Kwang-rae recently, started on the offensive from the  beginning and could have opened the scoring in the second minute but Lee  Chung-yong\u2019s close-range shot struck goalkeeper Mehdi Rahmati\u2019s leg and  bounced off the target. <\/p>\n<p>Javad Nekounam had an open chance in the 14th minute but his weak shot was collected easily by Korean custodian Jung Sung-ryong.<\/p>\n<p>Iran coach Afshin Ghotbi was happy with the result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  am very happy that we won today. Korea is a very difficult team to beat  but we got confidence from this result that Iran can be a top team in  Asia again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cho, however, was satisfied with his players\u2019 performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  thank the players who did their best. We wanted to show good passing  game but the ground condition was not that good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Korean  captain and Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-sung said: \u201cIt\u2019s a  pity that we could not win today but we did our best. The most important  thing is that we understood and tried to show what the coach wants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran  have been pooled with defending champions Iraq, DPR Korea and UAE in  the continental showpiece while Korea Republic will play Australia,  India and Bahrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran received a massive psychological boost in their preparations for the AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3813,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471","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=11471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}