{"id":18670,"date":"2014-06-24T13:13:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T20:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18670"},"modified":"2014-06-24T13:13:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T20:13:34","slug":"we-surprised-the-world-beitashour-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/06\/24\/we-surprised-the-world-beitashour-says\/","title":{"rendered":"We surprised the world, Beitashour says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SALVADOR, <strong>Vancouver Whitecaps defender Steven Beitashour believes that Iran played well against Argentina and surprised the world with its incredible performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran lost to Argentina 1-0 in Group F of the 2014 World Cup but had a couple of chances against the tournament\u2019s favorite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played well for 90 minutes but unfortunately at the end we conceded a late goal that was really disappointing. I think with this performance we surprised Argentina and the world a little bit right there\u201d Beitashour told Tehran Times correspondent in Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously Messi is a great player. He creates the chance out of nothing. It is one of those tough things that you fought for a long time and you have to concentrate beyond the 90 minutes even during the injury time and Messi scored exactly in that time, that one really hurts,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Born in San Jose, Calif., to Iranian parents, Beitashour holds dual Iranian-American citizenship. He believes that Iran can qualify for the next round if they beat Bosnia in the final group game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to fight to beat Bosnia so we would have the chance to qualify\u201d, Beitashour said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SALVADOR, Vancouver Whitecaps defender Steven Beitashour believes that Iran played well against&#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-18670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4036,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18670","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=18670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18670\/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=18670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}