{"id":11878,"date":"2011-01-21T06:33:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T14:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/21\/daei-excited-by-matchworld-cup\/"},"modified":"2011-01-21T06:33:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T14:33:34","slug":"daei-excited-by-matchworld-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/21\/daei-excited-by-matchworld-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Daei excited by Matchworld Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"http:\/\/fc-perspolis.com\/uploads\/posts\/1295445950.jpg\" height=\"488\" width=\"682\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sport360 &#8211; UAE, <strong>FC Piroozi boss Ali Daei believes the Matchworld Cup provides  his players with the perfect opportunity to test themselves against  more illustrious opponents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian legend, who netted a  staggering 109 goals for his country in 149 caps, has made a seamless  transition into the management arena after winning the Hazfi Cup in his  first season in charge last year.<\/p>\n<p>And he is now excited to pit  his wits against the likes of Luciano Spalletti and Mircea Lucescu while  believing the experience of facing world class opposition can only  benefit his players\u2019 development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpportunities like this don\u2019t come along very often so we are delighted to be involved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying  against different teams and styles gives me the chance to identify the  strengths and weaknesses of my own side and compare them with our  opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Piroozi will take centre stage later this evening  when they face Czech champions Sparta Prague at the Maktoum bin Rashid  Al Maktoum stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Buoyed by the recent arrival of veteran  striker Vahid Hashemian, who has returned to his homeland after 11 years  in spent in Germany, Daei will be confident his side can spring an  upset.<\/p>\n<p>His side\u2019s chances will be helped by the fact Sparta only  arrived in the UAE yesterday afternoon, just 24 hours before they are  due to take to the field.<br \/><strong><em><br \/><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sport360 &#8211; UAE, FC Piroozi boss Ali Daei believes the Matchworld Cup provides his players&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c20-other-news"],"views":6322,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878","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=11878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}