{"id":17827,"date":"2014-04-14T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T18:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17827"},"modified":"2014-04-14T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T18:20:01","slug":"iran-could-make-surprise-world-cup-mcmanaman-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/04\/14\/iran-could-make-surprise-world-cup-mcmanaman-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran could make surprise World Cup, McManaman says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Real Madrid winger Steve McManaman said that Iran has a chance to qualify for the next stage of the 2014 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran will face Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Nigeria in Group F of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran has a difficult task to qualify for the second round. Nigeria is more experienced team than Iran. Also, humid weather in Brazil will be a privilege for the African team,\u201d McManaman told ISNA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a doubt, Argentina will advance to the next stage as the first team. Three other teams will have to compete for the second place,\u201d former Liverpool player added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArgentina is a favorite to win the title in the World Cup. The team could be a serious rival for host Brazil,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlways, there have been the teams in the World Cup, who have made surprise the world and Iran can be a dark horse in this edition,\u201d McManaman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarlos Queiroz is a great coach. He has worked at the great teams such as Manchester United and Real Madrid and takes advantage of valuable experiences,\u201d McManaman concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Real Madrid winger Steve McManaman said that Iran has a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":16385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4547,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17827","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=17827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}