{"id":11801,"date":"2011-01-09T01:52:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T09:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/09\/our-job-in-the-asian-cup-is-not-easy-ghotbi-says\/"},"modified":"2011-01-09T01:52:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T09:52:58","slug":"our-job-in-the-asian-cup-is-not-easy-ghotbi-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/09\/our-job-in-the-asian-cup-is-not-easy-ghotbi-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Our job in the Asian Cup is not easy, Ghotbi says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"ghotbi-people2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ghotbi-people2.jpg\" height=\"276\" width=\"425\" \/>MNA &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran football coach Afshin Ghotbi said that the Persians have a difficult task to do in the AFC 2011 Asian Cup in Qatar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran, who has been grouped with title holder Iraq, North Korea and the UAE in Group D, will play Iraq on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;As you know Iraq is the defending champion but we defeated them in the West Asian Cup about six months ago. Iran faces a tricky match against the team but we can beat them again,&#8221; Ghotbi said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;North Korea makes life difficult for all teams. Remember them against Brazil in the 2010 World Cup. And the UAE might be the tournament&#8217;s dark house,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran is going to end the 35-year title draught. For a country like Iran with such history, we always have to aim for championship. In my opinion, Iran is a quality team who can win the title in the event. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will prepare for our opening match against Iraq. Iran will qualify for the knockout stage with six points, though we can also advance with five points,&#8221; Ghotbi concluded.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gN2LCCuRGss\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gN2LCCuRGss<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; DOHA, Iran football coach Afshin Ghotbi said that the Persians have a difficult&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2879,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11801","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=11801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}