{"id":20101,"date":"2015-01-10T15:50:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T23:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20101"},"modified":"2015-01-10T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T23:50:06","slug":"we-need-to-respect-our-opponents-and-get-the-job-done-ghoochannejhad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/10\/we-need-to-respect-our-opponents-and-get-the-job-done-ghoochannejhad\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Need To Respect Our Opponents and Get the Job Done&#8221; &#8211; Ghoochannejhad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; Melbourne, <strong>Iran striker Reza Ghoochannjhad is confident of Irans chances and believes obtaining positive results in the group stage is all that matters rather than individual achievements. <\/strong>\t<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli is scheduled to meet Bahrain on Sunday in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel pressure so much as pride at playing for my country, which is something I\u2019ve always spoken about,\u201d Ghoochannejhad told FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just happy to help the team out by scoring goals, making assists and playing well. What\u2019s most important, though, is that we reach the second round and make our fans happy,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ll be pleased with that regardless of whether it\u2019s me who\u2019s scoring or my team-mates. Football is a team sport first and foremost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe important thing is to stay focused for these three matches and to come away with the results we want. We need to respect our opponents and get the job done\u201d, Ghoochannejhad underlined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; Melbourne, Iran striker Reza Ghoochannjhad is confident of Irans chances and believes obtaining&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":15011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2468,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20101","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}