{"id":13212,"date":"2012-10-17T18:39:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T01:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/17\/iran-sets-sights-on-uzbekistan-coach-says\/"},"modified":"2012-10-17T18:39:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T01:39:54","slug":"iran-sets-sights-on-uzbekistan-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/17\/iran-sets-sights-on-uzbekistan-coach-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran sets sights on Uzbekistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Neko_green\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Neko_green.jpg\" height=\"302\" width=\"300\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran captain Javad Nekounam says after beating South Korea, the national team has set sights on Uzbekistan for the 2014 World Cup qualifier.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>10-man Iran beat South Korea in a World Cup qualifier in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Tuesday, thanks to a goal from Nekounam.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cDefeating South Korea really made us happy. Our guys did a great job since we were 10 men from the start of the second half,\u201d Nekounam said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cIran needed this victory. I am happy as well as the all the Iranian people. However, I believe that we have to defeat Uzbekistan as well to pave the way for the World Cup,\u201d the 32-year-old said. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cIran is second behind South Korea with seven points. If we want to book a place in the World Cup we will have to get six points more from our four games,\u201d former Osasuna midfielder added.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran is scheduled to face Uzbekistan in Tehran on November 14. &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>South Korea remains above of Iran in Group A on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan is third with five points and Qatar and Lebanon are fourth and fifth both with four points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran captain Javad Nekounam says after beating South Korea, the national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5485,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212","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=13212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}