{"id":18646,"date":"2014-06-23T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18646"},"modified":"2014-06-23T13:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:22:29","slug":"irans-dejagah-still-optimistic-iran-will-qualify-to-knockout-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/06\/23\/irans-dejagah-still-optimistic-iran-will-qualify-to-knockout-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Dejagah still optimistic Iran will qualify to knockout stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SAO PAULO, <strong>Iran striker Ashkan Dejagah is confident his team can still make it to the knockout stage, despite the Iranian team suffering a 1-0 defeat against Argentina in Group F.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope we have showed the world that Iran can play football. We still have a chance to go through and who would have thought our World Cup would last longer than England and Spain,&#8221; the 27-year-old told Daily Star.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will take on Bosnia on Wednesday knowing a win could send them into the last 16.<\/p>\n<p>Dejagah added: &#8220;We had such a bad feeling after the match against Argentina because of the way it ended. As a team we had played so well and defended superbly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We tried to make it tough for them and with a little bit of luck we would have won this game or even got a draw.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The manager always tries to make sure that when we are training we are defending well and I think that is the most important thing. We did it well and still have a chance to go through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were very unlucky.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SAO PAULO, Iran striker Ashkan Dejagah is confident his team can still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":16135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4771,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646","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=18646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}