{"id":19995,"date":"2015-01-04T10:03:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19995"},"modified":"2015-01-04T10:03:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T18:03:51","slug":"carlos-queiroz-sees-iraq-match-as-good-for-young-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/04\/carlos-queiroz-sees-iraq-match-as-good-for-young-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Queiroz sees Iraq match as &#8220;good&#8221; for young players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SYDNEY, <strong>Iranian national football team head coach Carlos Queiroz said that the friendly match against Iraq was a good opportunity for the young players to gain experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli defeated Iraq in a friendly at the WIN Stadium in Sydney on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Rubin Kazan striker Sardar Azmoun scored the winner in the 56th minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur young players were given a chance to play in an international match. They were anxious in the first few minutes, but slowly took superior ground and it was a good opportunity for them to gain experience,\u201d Queiroz told Iran Football Federation website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIraq has several good players and I thank the Iraqi federation since they expressed interest in playing a friendly,\u201d the Portuguese coach said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could have prepared to win the title but our training camps were cancelled and it was a big blow for us, however we are very motivated to reach our goal,\u201d former Real Madrid added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur young players showed that they have a bright future in the match against Iraq,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Iran kicks off its attempt to win a record-equalling fourth AFC Asian Cup in Melbourne on January 11 when they take on Bahrain in Group A while the Iraqis meet Jordan in Brisbane on January 12 in their first game in Group D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SYDNEY, Iranian national football team head coach Carlos Queiroz said that the friendly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":18913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5739,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19995","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=19995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}