{"id":16249,"date":"2013-10-26T15:07:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T22:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16249"},"modified":"2013-10-26T15:07:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T22:07:29","slug":"iran-ready-to-defeat-nigeria-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/10\/26\/iran-ready-to-defeat-nigeria-coach-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran ready to defeat Nigeria, coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Iran coach Ali Doostimehr said that playing against Nigeria in the FIFA U-17 World Cup last 16 is so difficult but they want to beat the African giant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran booked a place in the last 16 after a 1-0 win over Austria in Group E in Al Ain on Friday. Yousef Seyyedi scored the only goal of the match in the 36th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team will face Nigeria on Tuesday at the Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEver since I can remember, Nigeria has been one of the FIFA U-17 World Cup favorites. Nigeria and Brazil are the most powerful teams,\u201d Doostimehr said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is really difficult playing against Nigeria but we want to go ahead, that\u2019s why we are here. I promise to do our best against the team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian people love football and I thank them all to pray for us,\u201d Doostimehr concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, Iran coach Ali Doostimehr said that playing against Nigeria in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":16221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3219,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16249","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=16249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}