{"id":11822,"date":"2011-01-11T20:03:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T04:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/11\/park-ji-sung-reluctant-to-face-iran-in-asian-cup\/"},"modified":"2011-01-11T20:03:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T04:03:31","slug":"park-ji-sung-reluctant-to-face-iran-in-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/11\/park-ji-sung-reluctant-to-face-iran-in-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Ji Sung reluctant to face Iran in Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"park_ji-sung\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/park_ji-sung.jpg\" height=\"366\" width=\"389\" \/>MNA &#8211; DOHA, <strong>South Korea captain Park Ji Sung admitted that he is not relishing the thought of playing Iran in the knock out stage of the 2010 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Korea defeated Bahrain 2-1 in Group C and if it advances to the next stage will play one of the two top teams of Group D.<\/p>\n<p>The Manchester United South Korean striker said he would rather not play Iran in that stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran is a good team and we don\u2019t want to face them in the Asian Cup knock out stage. The Iranians have a good coach (Afshin Ghotbi) who knows football,\u201d Park said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran defeated South Korea 1-0 in a friendly match in September 2010 in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you know it was a friendly, while the Asian Cup is an official event and all the participants are doing their best,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the win over Bahrain, he added, \u201cThe first match is always important in an Asian Cup or a World Cup. The three points make the rest of the games much easier for us. It was very important to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; DOHA, South Korea captain Park Ji Sung admitted that he is not relishing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4440,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822","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=11822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}