{"id":12247,"date":"2011-06-25T08:57:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/25\/there-are-no-excuses-iran-olympic-coach-says\/"},"modified":"2011-06-25T08:57:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T15:57:02","slug":"there-are-no-excuses-iran-olympic-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/25\/there-are-no-excuses-iran-olympic-coach-says\/","title":{"rendered":"There are no excuses, Iran Olympic coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Mansourian\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Mansourian.jpg\" height=\"260\" width=\"374\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran Olympic football coach Alireza Mansourian said that he is responsible for the defeat against Iraq in the 2012 Olympic qualifier. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran, which Sunday had defeated Iraq 1-0 in the first leg in Arbil, suffered a 2-0 defeat against the team in the second leg on Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no excuses. Iran showed a bad performance against Iraq in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium and I am responsible for that,\u201d Mansourian said.<\/p>\n<p>Two goals by Amjad Radhi, one either side of halftime, put 2004 Athens Games semifinalists Iraq through to the third round of qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were informed just before the match the Iraqi team was awarded a 3-0 victory in the first leg since one of the Iranian players should not have played as he has not been allowed to play,\u201d Iran coach added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and Iraq have both qualified for the Olympics four times. Iran has not qualified for the Olympic since 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the 15,000 Iranian spectators walked out before the match ended. They shouted slogans against the head of the country&#8217;s football federation Ali Kafashian, calling for his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Asia have 3.5 places at the 2012 Games, with the 12 winners of the second round clashes to be divided into three groups of four teams in the third round.<\/p>\n<p>The three group winners will qualify while the three runners up will meet in next March for a three way tournament to decide who wins the right to face an African nation for a place in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran Olympic football coach Alireza Mansourian said that he is responsible for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3931,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247","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=12247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}