{"id":12390,"date":"2011-09-04T07:16:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T14:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/09\/04\/emboldened-captain-nekounam-eyes-qatar-victory\/"},"modified":"2011-09-04T07:16:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T14:16:11","slug":"emboldened-captain-nekounam-eyes-qatar-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/09\/04\/emboldened-captain-nekounam-eyes-qatar-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Emboldened captain Nekounam eyes Qatar victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"nekoo-laughing1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nekoo-laughing1.jpg\" height=\"216\" width=\"320\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The emboldened Iran captain Javad Nekounam is aiming to win Tuesday\u2019s match against Qatar in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran defeated Indonesia in a World Cup qualifying match in Asia\u2019s Group E courtesy of two goals from captain Nekounam and one from substitute Andranik Teymourian on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Group E leader Iran is scheduled to face Qatar on Tuesday in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will go to Doha [with aim] to get three points. All the Asian teams are fearful of Iran football team; we only need to believe in ourselves. We can continue our victory march by beating Qatar in Doha,\u201d Nekounam said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran had a good start against Indonesia but we missed so many opportunities in the first half. However in the second half we raised the concentration-level and could score three goals. Iran could have scored even more goals,\u201d Osasuna midfielder said.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian media had already reported that there is an issue between Nekounam and Ali Karimi about the captaincy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI and Karimi talked to coach (Carlos Queiroz) about the armband. Thanks to Karimi since he said he doesn\u2019t care about the captaincy and just is proud of playing for Iran football team,\u201d Nekounam concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Iran football team will travel to Doha on Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, The emboldened Iran captain Javad Nekounam is aiming to win Tuesday\u2019s match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4492,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12390","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=12390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}