{"id":18536,"date":"2014-06-15T06:59:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T13:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18536"},"modified":"2014-06-15T06:59:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T13:59:41","slug":"nigeria-coach-keshi-wary-of-iran-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/06\/15\/nigeria-coach-keshi-wary-of-iran-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria coach Keshi wary of Iran threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; CURITIBA, <strong>Nigeria national football team coach Stephen Keshi said the Iranian football team is something of an unknown quantity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will play Iran on Monday at the Arena da Baixada in Curitiba. The African representative will also face Bosnia and Herzegovina and Argentina in Group F of the 2014 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to go out with everything that we have. They have a very good coach and I&#8217;m sure they also have some quality players,&#8221; Keshi told FIFA.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know Iran very well, but we&#8217;ll see them on Monday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quieroz has managed a host of nations including South Africa and Portugal as well as a stint as coach at Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think an experienced coach is their biggest weapon. He&#8217;s well experienced, he knows the game well,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; CURITIBA, Nigeria national football team coach Stephen Keshi said the Iranian football team&#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-18536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-world-cup"],"views":5023,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18536","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=18536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}