{"id":15645,"date":"2013-08-20T11:19:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=15645"},"modified":"2013-08-20T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:19:26","slug":"we-must-respect-buriram-united-esteghlal-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/08\/20\/we-must-respect-buriram-united-esteghlal-coach-says\/","title":{"rendered":"We must respect Buriram United, Esteghlal coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal coach Amir Ghalenoei has asked his side to treat Buriram United with respect.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghalenoei made the remarks in the Iranian capital on Tuesday, a day before the Tehran-based team will take on Thailand\u2019s representative for the first leg of the Asian Champions League quarterfinal in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that Buriram is a strong team and takes advantage of the good players, especially in the midfield. We must respect them. Esteghlal is also well prepared for the match. Damash\u2019s win in the Iranian Professional League gave us a great boost ahead of the match against Buriram,\u201d Ghalenoei said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal coach called the fans to support the team during the match against Buriram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sure that 80,000 spectators will come to the Azadi Stadium to support us. We should not concede a goal against them, this is our priority,\u201d Ghalenoei stated.<\/p>\n<p>Buriram will miss Thailand defender Teerathorn Bunmathan, who is suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal midfielder Andranik Teymourian will also miss the match because of injury.<\/p>\n<p>The second leg of Asian Champions League is scheduled to be played on September 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal coach Amir Ghalenoei has asked his side to treat Buriram&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":2606,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645","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=15645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}