{"id":21146,"date":"2015-04-15T09:09:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21146"},"modified":"2015-04-15T09:09:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:09:54","slug":"tough-to-face-highest-ranked-iran-indias-coach-constantine-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/04\/15\/tough-to-face-highest-ranked-iran-indias-coach-constantine-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough to Face Highest Ranked Iran, India&#8217;s Coach Constantine Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; NEW DELHI, <strong>India&#8217;s coach Stephen Constantine said there is no need to explain the strength of Iran football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India has been grouped with Iran, Oman, Turkmenistan and Guam in Group D of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One doesn&#8217;t need to explain the strength of Iran and Oman. Iran is the highest ranked Asian country while Oman are a very strong side,&#8221; Constantine said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Regardless of the FIFA rankings, I am aware of the difficulties of playing against Turkmenistan and Guam. Guam, in fact, has made tremendous progress in the last two years under a fellow English coach,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tough draw but it&#8217;s always better to be in the draw than out of it, and we will do all what is possible to get a result,&#8221; Constantine stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; NEW DELHI, India&#8217;s coach Stephen Constantine said there is no need to explain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2745,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21146","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=21146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}