{"id":20385,"date":"2015-01-25T10:24:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20385"},"modified":"2015-01-25T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T18:24:42","slug":"irans-vahid-amiri-apologizes-for-penalty-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/25\/irans-vahid-amiri-apologizes-for-penalty-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Vahid Amiri apologizes for penalty miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CANBERRA, <strong>Iranian international midfielder Vahid Amiri apologized to his teammates and the fans after he missed a penalty against Iraq in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Iran, who was reduced to 10-man in the 43rd minute, twice came from behind in the quarter-final match and two Middle Eastern rivals finally finished all square at 3-3 at the end of extra-time.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian football team lost to Iraqi outfit 8-7 on the penalty shootout. Amiri hit the post, allowing Salman Shakir to slot to his right and secure Iraq&#8217;s progression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI missed the penalty and we lost. I still cannot believe that. I am the saddest person in Iran. I wanted to make my people happy, but it didn&#8217;t happen. I felt ashamed. Sorry,\u201d the 27-year-old player told teamiran.net. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CANBERRA, Iranian international midfielder Vahid Amiri apologized to his teammates and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3052,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20385","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=20385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}