{"id":13938,"date":"2013-02-26T14:13:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T22:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=13938"},"modified":"2013-02-27T13:56:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T21:56:35","slug":"esteghlal-ready-to-beat-al-rayyan-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/02\/26\/esteghlal-ready-to-beat-al-rayyan-coach-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal ready to beat Al Rayyan, coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal coach Amir Ghalenoei said that they are well-prepared for the AFC Champions League group stage match against Al-Rayyan of Qatar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Qatari football team will host Esteghlal in ACL Group D in Doha\u2019s Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, I am happy to be here because I was playing in Qatar in 1986 when I was a member of Al Sadd. I hope that my teammates are good. After that, I came here as a coach of Iran nationalteam. I have a good knowledge of Qatar football,\u201d Ghalenoei said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEsteghal are in group of death but we are here to win the match. We will have to stop their number 10 (Rodrigo Tabata) if we want to win the match. I think he is their key player,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Al Rayyan is more powerful than last year but we are Esteghlal too. Esteghlal is a big team in Iran and Asia. We are not afraid of Al Rayyan and we want to beat them as we defeated them last year,\u201d Ghalenoei concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal is in Group D of the AFC Champions League along with Al Ain of the United Arab Emirates and Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal coach Amir Ghalenoei said that they are well-prepared for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2442,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938","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=13938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}