{"id":16610,"date":"2013-12-08T11:02:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T19:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16610"},"modified":"2013-12-08T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T19:02:55","slug":"iran-not-afraid-to-face-argentina-nekounam-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/12\/08\/iran-not-afraid-to-face-argentina-nekounam-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran not afraid to face Argentina, Nekounam says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran captain Javad Nekounam said that his team is not afraid of facing Argentina in the 2014 FIFA World Cup group stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran has been grouped with Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Nigeria in Group F.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran has been grouped with three strong teams. Argentina, Nigeria and Bosnia and Herzegovina are powerful but we are going to do our best and defend our dignity,\u201d Nekounam said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not afraid of facing Argentina. They are one the best teams in the world and we will likely lose to them but we are not scared of anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria and Bosnia and Herzegovina are strong too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArgentina has good players and I think they are one of the favorites, but we are highly motivated too,\u201d the 34-year-old midfielder added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play Nigeria on June 16 at the Arena da Baixada in Curitiba.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Carlos Queiroz\u2019s men will meet Argentina on June 21 at the Estadio Mineirao in Belo Horizonte.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will face debutant Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador on June 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran captain Javad Nekounam said that his team is not afraid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4092,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610","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=16610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}