{"id":19602,"date":"2014-11-18T18:31:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T02:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19602"},"modified":"2014-11-18T18:31:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T02:31:01","slug":"referee-dedicates-victory-to-iran-uli-stielike-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/11\/18\/referee-dedicates-victory-to-iran-uli-stielike-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Referee Dedicates Victory to Iran, Uli Stielike Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> South Korea&#8217;s national football coach Uli Stielike has openly criticized Uzbekistani referee Valentin Kovalenko for his performance during Iran\u2013South Korea friendly match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The South Korean football team suffered a 1-0 defeat Against Iran in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>In the 81st minute, Rubin Kazan striker Sardar Azmoun found the back of the net and Stielike believed that it was a clear foul on the Korean keeper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am satisfied with my players but I believed that the referee dedicated victory to the Iranian football team. It\u2019s for the second time we concede these kinds of goals and I think my players are very polite and don\u2019t protest the referee,\u201d Stielike said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea has lost three times out of its previous four matches.<\/p>\n<p>Asked him if the team has a chance to win the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, Stielike said, \u201cAs I said before our team can be a successful team in the Asian Cup. We will be better in the future. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment, we are concentrating on counter-attack but with this unity we have a great chance to win the Asian Cup,\u201d the German coach added.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, South Korea&#8217;s national football coach Uli Stielike has openly criticized Uzbekistani referee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5217,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19602","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}