{"id":12753,"date":"2012-02-18T17:47:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T01:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/18\/esteghlal-ready-to-beat-al-ettifaq-mazloumi-says\/"},"modified":"2012-02-18T17:47:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T01:47:51","slug":"esteghlal-ready-to-beat-al-ettifaq-mazloumi-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/18\/esteghlal-ready-to-beat-al-ettifaq-mazloumi-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal ready to beat Al-Ettifaq, Mazloumi says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Mazloomi-mes333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Mazloomi-mes333.jpg\" height=\"271\" width=\"403\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football coach Parviz Mazloumi said that his team is well-prepared to defeat Al-Ettifaq in the 2012 Asian Champions League play-off match.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Speaking at the pre-match news conference on Friday, Mazloumi said, \u201cWe\u2019ve seen their films and have a good knowledge about them. Al-Ettifaq will play as the other Arabian teams play in their away games. They\u2019ve come here to stop us. But we are ready to beat them.\u201d<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cMojtaba Jabbari will more likely play against Al-Ettifaq and this is a good news. Andranik Teymourian and Milad Meydavoudi cannot play as they are injured and Ferydon Zandi is a doubt,\u201d Esteghlal coach added. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Meanwhile, Branko Ivankovic has not come to Tehran, reportedly because Iranian authorities are seeking unpaid taxes from him of around \u20ac200,000. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The 57-year-old was previously the coach of the Iran national team, leading them to a third-place finish in the 2004 Asian Cup as well as a successful qualification for the 2006 World Cup finals.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The winner of Saturday&#8217;s match will join Qatar&#8217;s Al Rayyan, Uzbekistan&#8217;s Nasaf, and the UAE&#8217;s Al Jazira in Group A of the ACL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football coach Parviz Mazloumi said that his team is well-prepared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2419,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753","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=12753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}