{"id":14863,"date":"2013-05-31T09:35:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14863"},"modified":"2013-05-31T09:35:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:35:24","slug":"carlos-queiroz-expects-difficult-match-against-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/05\/31\/carlos-queiroz-expects-difficult-match-against-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Queiroz expects &#8220;difficult&#8221; match against Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Iran coach Carlos Queiroz says he is anticipating a difficult match against Qatar in the World Cup qualifier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran will face Qatar in a must-win game on June 4 in the Qatari capital Doha. The Persians will also play Lebanon and South Korea on June 11 and 18 respectively<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a major dream for all countries to qualify to the World Cup and, of course, the expectation in Iran is very high because it\u2019s a football country with a lot of passion,\u201d the Portuguese told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that it will be a difficult game for both teams but I am very positive and confident we can get a good result in Qatar,\u201d Queiroz added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this moment everybody in the group can be in [automatic qualification] and everybody can be out. So it\u2019s still open for all the teams. It\u2019s my major goal in this moment of my career to qualify Iran for the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran is third in Group A with seven points. Uzbekistan leads the group with 11 points with one game more, followed by South Korea with 10 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, Iran coach Carlos Queiroz says he is anticipating a difficult match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3904,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14863","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=14863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}