{"id":13221,"date":"2012-10-24T18:23:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T01:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/24\/figo-queiroz-will-take-the-team-to-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2012-10-24T18:23:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T01:23:38","slug":"figo-queiroz-will-take-the-team-to-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/24\/figo-queiroz-will-take-the-team-to-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Figo: Queiroz will take the team to World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/cache\/multithumb_thumbs\/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_edim_13-1(90).jpg\" width=\"300\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; MILAN, <strong>Former Portugal midfielder praised his former coach Carlos Queiroz and said he would take the Iran football team to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<\/strong><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Luis Figo made the remarks in an interview with Iran\u2019s Jahan Sanat newspaper that was published on Monday. The interview was conducted in Inter Milan club, Italy. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI have so many good memories from my playing career in Inter (Milan). Now, I am working as the youth development in Inter. The Italian club has so many football academies around the world including Iran,\u201d Figo said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI knew Iran\u2019s football since the 2006 World Cup, where we beat the Asian team 2-0. I have to tell you it was a difficult match, however, we were criticized due to result because the experts believed that we should have won the match with more than two goals,\u201d the 40-year-old said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI have already worked under Carlos Queiroz in Portugal youth team, where we won the title of the 1991 Football World Youth Championship. Queiroz is a big coach and discovered the Golden Generation including Rui Costa, Fernando Couto, Joao Pinto, Jorge Costa and V\u00edtor Baia,\u201d former Barcelona and Real Madrid player said. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI wish Queiroz and Iran football team all the best. In my opinion, Iran will qualify for the World Cup under guidance of this coach,\u201d the Portuguese said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; MILAN, Former Portugal midfielder praised his former coach Carlos Queiroz and said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4225,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221","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=13221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}