{"id":11993,"date":"2011-03-06T18:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T02:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/06\/baimatov-serves-iran-warning\/"},"modified":"2011-03-06T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T02:01:20","slug":"baimatov-serves-iran-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/06\/baimatov-serves-iran-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Baimatov serves Iran warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/players\/b\/3x2\/azmat_baimatov_3x2.jpg\" \/>AFC &#8211; BISHKEK, <strong>Kyrgyzstan Olympic team captain Azamat Baimatov has promised to go all  out against fancied Iran in the second leg of their 2012 Olympic  qualifiers on Wednesday at home. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Central Asians surprised everyone by restricting their  losing margin to 1-0 at Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium and Baimatov believes the  addition of overseas-based strikers will give some extra ammunition to  the hosts. <\/p>\n<p>The arrival of Anton Zemlyanukhin, who struts his  stuff for Kazakhstan outfit Taraz, and Mirlan Murzaev, who plays for  Israel club Hapoel Petah Tikva FC, will strengthen the Kyrgyz frontline.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think playing at home and in front of our fans will be an  advantage for us. Our coaching staff and all the players believe that we  have the abilities to upset them,\u201d he told the-afc.com. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a captain of the team, I will do everything to build cohesion and improve the performance of the side.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Baimatov  will join Ukrainian outfit Carpathian after the Iran tie and also has  plans to represent the country in the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualifiers  to be played in Maldives from March 21. <\/p>\n<p>Kyrgyzstan were placed in Group C alongside Cambodia, Maldives and Tajikistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan Olympic team captain Azamat Baimatov has promised to go all out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3826,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993","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=11993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}