{"id":15488,"date":"2013-06-22T08:10:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T15:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=15488"},"modified":"2013-06-22T08:10:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T15:10:50","slug":"fifa-president-joseph-s-blatter-congratulates-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/06\/22\/fifa-president-joseph-s-blatter-congratulates-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter congratulates Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>FIFA President Joseph Sepp Blatter has sent a letter of congratulation to Ali Kaffashian, head of the Iranian Football Federation, over qualifying for the 2014 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to express my heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Kaffashian for direct qualification for the 2014 World Cup. I would also like to wish all your team the best of luck in the tournament,\u201d Blatter wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian football team beat South Korea 1-0 on Tuesday at the Munsu Football Stadium in Ulsan thanks to Reza Ghuchannejad\u2019s winning goal.<\/p>\n<p>Iran finished on top of Group A of the Asian qualifiers with 16 points. South Korea also earned a berth in the World Cup by finishing in second place in Group A with 14 points, edging past Uzbekistan, which also had 14 points, on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth time the Iranian football team has qualified for the World Cup. Iran also went to the World Cup in 1978, 1998, and 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, FIFA President Joseph Sepp Blatter has sent a letter of congratulation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4344,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15488","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=15488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}