{"id":20417,"date":"2015-01-26T11:19:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T19:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20417"},"modified":"2015-01-26T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T19:19:26","slug":"we-deserved-to-advance-to-asian-cup-semis-queiroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/26\/we-deserved-to-advance-to-asian-cup-semis-queiroz\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Deserved to Advance to Asian Cup Semis&#8221; &#8211; Queiroz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim News &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian national football team coach Carlos Queiroz said that Team Melli deserved to be in the semi-final of the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian football team, known to Team Melli, arrived at Imam Khomeini International Airport Monday noon.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli lost to Iraq on penalties on Friday in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup quarter-final and was forced to return to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters at airport, Carlos Queiroz praised his boys\u2019 performance in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we deserved to advance to the semi-final. From now, we have to think about the 2018 World Cup,&#8221; the Portuguese coach said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should be proud of our performance in the Asian Cup. I would also like to extend my gratitude to those who supported us during the competition,\u201d Queiroz added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim News &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian national football team coach Carlos Queiroz said that Team Melli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":14956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20417","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":3788,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417","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=20417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}