{"id":17178,"date":"2014-01-29T11:34:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T19:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17178"},"modified":"2014-01-29T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T19:34:55","slug":"iran-training-camp-in-south-africa-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/01\/29\/iran-training-camp-in-south-africa-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran training camp in South Africa cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Iranian national football team\u2019s training camp in South Africa has been cancelled, coach Carlos Queiroz said on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The training camp was scheduled to open on April 11 in the African country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe training camp has been cancelled since our key players cannot participate in the camp. More than four players are playing in the Arab leagues,\u201d Queiroz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI met Mr. (Ali) Kaffashian (the president of the Iran Football Federation) and was forced to revise our arrangements. There is no reason to hold a training camp without your key players. We are going to hold a camp starting on May 18,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHolding the camp without financial support is not logical. Of course, it could be harmful to our players. After we qualified for the World Cup, an internal voice told me we can make the Iranian people proud, but we are in danger now because we need support,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past 32 months that I\u2019ve been here as Iran football coach, I always tried to do my best and keep the team fully prepared. I sometimes even worked without pay, but you are not able to keep going without your key players,\u201d the Portuguese added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to call my friends (Sir Alex) Ferguson, (Jose) Mourinho, and (Fabio) Capello to get advice for better decisions because I am not magician,\u201d the former Real Madrid coach said.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Iran is in Group F along with Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iranian national football team\u2019s training camp in South Africa has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4531,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178","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=17178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}