{"id":21004,"date":"2015-03-31T11:17:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T18:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21004"},"modified":"2015-03-31T11:18:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T18:18:24","slug":"iran-olympic-coach-khakpour-laments-players-lack-of-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/03\/31\/iran-olympic-coach-khakpour-laments-players-lack-of-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Olympic Coach Khakpour Laments Players\u2019 Lack of Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran Olympic coach Mohammad Khakpour was left to bemoan his side&#8217;s lack of focus as it needed just a draw against Saudi Arabia but lost to the team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran suffered a bitter 2-1 home defeat against Saudi Arabia in the 2016  AFC U-23 Championship qualifiers in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy players did their best in the match against Saudi Arabia, but I think they showed a lack of concentration,\u201d Khakpour told the reporters in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have more plans for the future to avoid today\u2019s accidents. Don\u2019t forget, this team failed to advance from group-stage in the 2014 Asian Games in South Korea but at the moment it has changed so much,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Iran qualifies for the next stage as the second team, we have to work harder but I don\u2019t promise we will book a place in the 2016 Olympic Games,\u201d the former Iran defender said.<\/p>\n<p>With the result, Saudi Arabia advanced to the regional Olympic qualifying tournament as the first team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran Olympic coach Mohammad Khakpour was left to bemoan his side&#8217;s lack&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,139,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1956,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21004","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=21004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}