{"id":18483,"date":"2014-06-10T17:38:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T00:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18483"},"modified":"2014-06-11T01:58:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T08:58:26","slug":"iran-sets-sights-on-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/06\/10\/iran-sets-sights-on-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran sets sight on Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>theworldgame.sbs.com &#8211; Sao Paulo, <strong>Iran assistant coach Oceano Cruz was quick to switch his side&#8217;s focus to its FIFA World Cup opener with Nigeria after the 2-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz&#8217;s side had been on a four-match winless run before its victory in Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n<p>Iran was held to goalless draws against Belarus and Montenegro last month before a 1-1 draw with Angola, but goals from Ehsan Haji Safi and Reza Ghoochannejhad secured a timely return to winning ways.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz is happy to be heading to Brazil on the back of a victory, but is keen not to dwell on the result and instead urged the squad to concentrate on the Group F clash against Nigeria next Tuesday (AEST)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a game that has fulfilled our expectations,&#8221; Cruz told Globoesporte.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are preparing for the first match against Nigeria. Our only concern is Nigeria at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Victory is always important to create a culture of winning. This only happens with results like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As well as Nigeria, Iran faces Argentina and Bosnia-Herzegovina in Group F.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theworldgame.sbs.com &#8211; Sao Paulo, Iran assistant coach Oceano Cruz was quick to switch his side&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":18456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5506,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483","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=18483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}