{"id":11882,"date":"2011-01-21T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T22:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/21\/koreans-will-have-iran-on-the-run-quips-cha\/"},"modified":"2011-01-21T14:29:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T22:29:59","slug":"koreans-will-have-iran-on-the-run-quips-cha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/21\/koreans-will-have-iran-on-the-run-quips-cha\/","title":{"rendered":"Koreans will have Iran on the run quips Cha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/players\/c\/300x200\/cha_du_ri.jpg\" height=\"261\" width=\"392\" \/>AFC &#8211; DOHA,  <strong>Defender Cha Du-ri believes it is Iran that should be scared of Korea  Republic when the two sides meet in the quarter-finals of the AFC Asian  Cup Qatar 2011\u2122 at Qatar Sports Club Stadium on Saturday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran coach Afshin Ghotbi recently reiterated his belief that  Team Melli will be crowned champions come January 29, and they have  certainly looked strong at the tournament following three wins from  three during the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>But Korea Republic enjoyed one of  their best years in football in 2010 as they reached the last 16 of a  World Cup on foreign soil for the first time in history, where they also  recorded a victory over former Europe champions Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and  Korea Republic are certainly no strangers to each other with the two  sides meeting in the quarter-finals of the AFC Asian Cup in every  edition since 1996, with the their last encounter four years ago ending  in favour of the Taeguk Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>And Cha is confident that Korea Republic will be celebrating victory over the Iranians once again come Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe  Korea team is a strong team and we got to last 16 of the World Cup so I  think it is Iran that is scared of us,\u201d said the Celtic fullback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  believe Iran is a strong team but we should not fear them. We have  played stronger teams than Iran before and we have shown good  performances. We have confidence to play against anybody.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Defender Cha Du-ri believes it is Iran that should be scared of&#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-11882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2937,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882","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=11882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}