{"id":12150,"date":"2011-05-11T09:06:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/11\/trossero-qthrilledq-with-shabab-success\/"},"modified":"2011-05-11T09:06:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T16:06:23","slug":"trossero-qthrilledq-with-shabab-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/11\/trossero-qthrilledq-with-shabab-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Trossero “thrilled” with Shabab success"},"content":{"rendered":"
AFC – ESFAHAN, Al Shabab coach Enzo Trossero was thrilled to see his side qualify for the last 16 of the 2011 AFC Champions League with a 1-0 win over Group D winners Zob Ahan.
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Fisal Bin Sultan scored the only goal of the game at Foolad Shahr as both sides progressed to the next round. <\/p>\n

The goal came after 57 minutes when Bin Sultan received the ball in the penalty area with his back to goal before turning and firing home.<\/p>\n

Trossero said: \u201cThis is my third time in here, I\u2019d like to thank all fans who came to the stadium and made a very good sporting environment for the match. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a good victory for us and what makes me absolutely thrilled is that one Saudi Arabian team has defeated a very strong Iranian team and the win has led us to the next stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cZob Ahan is a very good team; they have four or five national players. They have been playing with each other for the past few years and that\u2019s produced a good harmony amongst them. They even deserve to win the title this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to thank my good friend Mansour Ebrahimzadeh, the head coach of Zob Ahan, because his team always plays good football.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the first-leg match in Saudi Arabia I didn\u2019t have eight main payers and in this game he was without three key players. <\/p>\n

\u201cI knew they wouldn\u2019t have their first squad against us and I based team planning and tactics based on this fact.\u201d <\/p>\n

Opposite number Ebrahimzadeh was also satisfied with his players’ performance. <\/p>\n

\u201cConsidering that we didn\u2019t have three of our players, we played fairly well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had good chances, but Al Shabab were the better side in the second-half and unfortunately they scored the goal they wanted. <\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, I am happy that my young players had enough spirit for the game, although they lost. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey players were really cautious about yellow cards not to be suspended from the next match in the round of 16 so that\u2019s why they didn\u2019t play a very tough match.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy players were all really exhausted from the league matches and this fact affected their performance tonight. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe friendship between me and Hector (Trosssero) is due to football. I have been friends with Hector since last year when I asked him to bring one of their professional players to the pre-match press conference. He was actually surprised that how well I knew his team and from then on we have been good friends.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AFC – ESFAHAN, Al Shabab coach Enzo Trossero was thrilled to see his side qualify…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2196,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}