{"id":12312,"date":"2011-07-23T04:11:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T11:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/07\/23\/iran-respects-maldives-carlos-queiroz-says\/"},"modified":"2011-07-23T04:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T11:11:34","slug":"iran-respects-maldives-carlos-queiroz-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/07\/23\/iran-respects-maldives-carlos-queiroz-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran respects Maldives, Carlos Queiroz says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"queiroz_action\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/queiroz_action.jpg\" height=\"238\" width=\"357\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football coach Carlos Queiroz said that they have a lot of respect for the Maldives, but they have to beat them. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran will play the Maldives in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers on Saturday in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium. The second leg will be held in Male, the Maldives capital on July 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am satisfied with my players at the moment since they are committed to their team and stay motivated to play the Maldives. We want to show a good performance and defeat them,\u201d Queiroz said on Friday during a pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Maldives football team has developed in recent years as other Asian countries, and will be headed by an experienced staff. They recently drew with India,\u201d the Portuguese added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of respect for them but respect ourselves more. Iran is ready to beat the Maldives,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The Maldives has been beaten 17-0 by Iran in 1997, but the team\u2019s coach Andres Cruciani is confident that his team will not suffer such heavy losses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not had enough time to prepare our team for the Iran match but I can assure you that the Maldives will not be defeated against Iran as in previous matches,\u201d Cruciani said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football coach Carlos Queiroz said that they have a lot of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5366,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312","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=12312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}