{"id":18416,"date":"2014-06-04T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18416"},"modified":"2014-06-04T15:34:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T22:34:11","slug":"queiroz-iran-deserve-world-cup-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/06\/04\/queiroz-iran-deserve-world-cup-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz: Iran deserve World Cup chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ca.soccerway.com &#8211; <strong>Iran coach Carlos Queiroz said his men are desperate to defy the odds, and cause a surprise at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Persian*<\/strong> Gulf nation are given little hope of progressing past Group F, as they are drawn against Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz&#8217;s men arrived in Brazil on Tuesday, with their opening group game against Nigeria on June 16.<\/p>\n<p>The former Portugal boss said Iran are motivated to vindicate their qualification to the finals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we came from the other side of the world we arrived earlier to start our preparation,&#8221; Queiroz said in Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have earned the right to play against the best and now it&#8217;s time to do it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have 90 minutes in each game and we will use them the best possible way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s preparation for the tournament has been less than ideal, with reports assistant coach Majid Salih resigned following their training camp in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>* Geographical term corrected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ca.soccerway.com &#8211; Iran coach Carlos Queiroz said his men are desperate to defy the odds,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":15412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6103,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18416","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\/25049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}