{"id":11850,"date":"2011-01-16T12:06:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T20:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/16\/irans-impressive-run\/"},"modified":"2011-01-16T12:06:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T20:06:55","slug":"irans-impressive-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/16\/irans-impressive-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s impressive run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2; width: 300px; float: left; margin: 7px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Iranian players celebrate after winning against DPR Korea in their group stage match.\" alt=\"irn_celebration_160111_3x2\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/comps\/asian_cup\/2011\/finals\/300x200\/irn_celebration_160111_3x2.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-align: center; padding: 4px 8px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;\">The Iranian players celebrate after winning against DPR Korea in their group stage match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong> Iran\u2019s qualification for the quarter-finals of the AFC Asian Cup 2011  is of a piece with their impressive run in previous editions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli beat DPR Korea 1-0 on Saturday at the Qatar Sports Club to qualify for the last eight on top of Group D.<\/p>\n<p>Iran were numero uno in Asia in 1968, 1976 and 1972, clinching the title impressively.<\/p>\n<p>They have finished third four times \u2013 1980, 1988, 1996 and 2004. In 1980, they were fourth.<\/p>\n<p>The reached the quarter-finals in recent years in 2000 and 2007. The only time they went out in the group stage was in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Team Melli lost to Korea Republic on penalties in Kuala Lumpur at the Bukit Jalil Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian players celebrate after winning against DPR Korea in their group stage match. AFC&#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-11850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3592,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850","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=11850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}