{"id":18531,"date":"2014-06-15T06:55:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T13:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18531"},"modified":"2014-06-15T06:55:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T13:55:47","slug":"argentina-and-iran-will-qualify-for-next-stage-beitashour-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/06\/15\/argentina-and-iran-will-qualify-for-next-stage-beitashour-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina and Iran will qualify for next stage, Beitashour says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CURITIBA, <strong>Mehrdad Beitashour said that the Iranian football team is going to book a berth in the 2014 World Cup next stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran will face Nigeria in its World Cup campaign in Group F on June 16 in Curitiba and play Argentina five days later at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian football team is scheduled to play Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 25 in group stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I definitely think Argentina is the favorite. They do deserve it. They&#8217;ve been a great team, and they&#8217;ve not been hyped for nothing. I think everyone expects that out of them, but I think the second spot of our group is up for grabs,\u201d Vancouver Whitecaps defender told reporters in a conference in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve got three hungry teams that are trying to win it, so that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so important for that first game to start off on the right foot,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we were about to land in Brazil, just seeing the country, that feeling right there, I&#8217;ll never forget it,\u201d Beitashour said. \u201cIt&#8217;s been really exciting and great every day we&#8217;ve been here, and I&#8217;m excited for the 16th to come up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CURITIBA, Mehrdad Beitashour said that the Iranian football team is going to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":16154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4562,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18531","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=18531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}