{"id":12471,"date":"2011-10-10T17:56:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T00:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/10\/iran-determined-to-defeat-bahrain-in-world-cup-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2011-10-10T17:56:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T00:56:30","slug":"iran-determined-to-defeat-bahrain-in-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/10\/iran-determined-to-defeat-bahrain-in-world-cup-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Iran determined to defeat Bahrain in WCQ\u2019 [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"neku-scores-jordan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/neku-scores-jordan.jpg\" height=\"239\" width=\"341\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran captain Javad Nekounam says the national football team is determined to defeat Bahrain in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Iran will play Bahrain on Tuesday in Group E of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers at Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, we are the happy team after the final whistle tomorrow. We want to qualify for the next round as the first-place team and must beat Bahrain in our home game,\u201d Nekounam said during a pre-match news conference at the Azadi Sports Complex on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian players always want to beat the Bahraini football team. We haven\u2019t forgotten their nasty behavior in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"330bahrainviran221001b995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/330bahrainviran221001b995.jpg\" height=\"130\" width=\"195\" \/>Bahrain\u2019s players hoisted the flag of Saudi Arabia after they beat Iran 3-1, paving the way for their neighbor to advance to the 2002 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fans must believe in their players. They must support us to help us defeat our opponent. Some of Bahrain\u2019s players always try to cheat the referees, but we know how they play,\u201d Nekounam said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uX1cbejhMek\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uX1cbejhMek<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XWNVqWOBqZs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XWNVqWOBqZs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran captain Javad Nekounam says the national football team is determined to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6498,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471","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=12471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}