{"id":15319,"date":"2013-06-16T21:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=15319"},"modified":"2013-06-17T01:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T08:00:02","slug":"thani-not-taking-tashkent-tie-lightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/06\/16\/thani-not-taking-tashkent-tie-lightly\/","title":{"rendered":"Thani not taking Tashkent tie lightly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Qatar coach Fahad Thani has vowed that his side will be giving 100% in their final 2014 World Cup qualifier against Uzbekistan even though the 2011 AFC Asian Cup hosts are out of the reckoning for a place in Brazil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Qatar go into Tuesday\u2019s match in Tashkent fourth in Group A with seven points with one match left to play and are four behind the Uzbeks who need to beat the Persian* Gulf side and hope the table-topping Koreans defeat second place Iran if they are to qualify automatically for next year\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Qatar Football Association\u2019s official website prior to their trip to Central Asia, Thani (pictured) said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us this is an important game and we are playing to win this match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a few absentees but we have decent replacements and the players have a responsibility to do their best. I will be looking for a top effort from the players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Qatar\u2019s slim hopes of at least finishing third and having a chance to qualify via the playoffs ended earlier this month when they lost 1-0 at home to Iran but Thani will not be taking his foot off the gas particularly with the resumption of the 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualifiers later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have some important matches coming up,\u201d he continued.<br \/>\n\u201cThe friendly we played against North Korea [which ended 0-0] helped the players to get the Iran match out of their system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* Geographical term corrected by PFDC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Qatar coach Fahad Thani has vowed that his side will be giving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":3828,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15319","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\/25049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}