{"id":11859,"date":"2011-01-18T18:16:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T02:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/18\/iran-aiming-for-2011-championship\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T18:16:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T02:16:43","slug":"iran-aiming-for-2011-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/18\/iran-aiming-for-2011-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran &#8216;aiming for 2011 championship&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"ghotbi1news\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ghotbi1news.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"420\" \/>PTV &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran&#8217;s head coach  Afshin Qotbi has said that the national team&#8217;s main goal is to present  the Iranian nation with the 2011 Asian Cup title.<\/strong><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn this road [to championship] it does not matter who our next  rival is,\u201d the Iranian manager said during a press conference ahead of  Wednesday&#8217;s match against the United Arab Emirates. <\/p>\n<p>The White Jerseys won their first two matches against defending  champion Iraq and North Korea and secured their spot in the knockout  stage as the first team of Group D with six points. <\/p>\n<p>Iran should take on the runner-up of Group C, which would be South Korea.  <\/p>\n<p>The result of match against the UAE has no impact on Iran&#8217;s status  in Group D. The battle between Iraq, with three points, and North Korea,  which has one point, would identify the runner-up of the group. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are the first team that qualified to the quarterfinal. I hope to  get all nine points and get ready for the next round,&#8221; Qotbi said on  Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran has players that can play in every match. We use players that  can help us in every game and get the required results,&#8221; he said when  asked about sending substitutes for the Wednesday&#8217;s match. <\/p>\n<p>Three-time champion Iran won the tournament in 1968, 1972 and 1976. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; DOHA, Iran&#8217;s head coach Afshin Qotbi has said that the national team&#8217;s main&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2398,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859","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=11859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}