{"id":18492,"date":"2014-06-11T03:03:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T10:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18492"},"modified":"2014-06-11T03:03:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T10:03:43","slug":"irans-opponent-argentina-arrives-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/06\/11\/irans-opponent-argentina-arrives-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s opponent Argentina arrives in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BELO HORIZONTE, <strong>Iran\u2019s Group F powerhouse rival Argentina arrived in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte amid a massive security operation on Monday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi and company were escorted from the airport to the team&#8217;s hotel by a fleet of military and federal police cars, private security vehicles and ambulances.<\/p>\n<p>The team will be based at the Cidade do Galo training center belonging to Atletico Mineiro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t do futurology. We didn&#8217;t end up in the most difficult group. But we&#8217;re playing against physically strong teams,&#8221; Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll try to advance from the group phase, and if we do, get there with our players in good condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Argentina will begin its World Cup Group F campaign against Bosnia and Herzegovina at Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s Maracana stadium on June 15. The team is scheduled to face Iran on June 21 and Nigeria on June 25.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina has won the World Cup twice in 1978 and 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BELO HORIZONTE, Iran\u2019s Group F powerhouse rival Argentina arrived in the Brazilian city&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-world-cup"],"views":3893,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18492","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=18492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}