{"id":21208,"date":"2015-04-21T21:54:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T04:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21208"},"modified":"2015-04-21T21:54:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T04:54:40","slug":"foolad-omitted-from-afc-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/04\/21\/foolad-omitted-from-afc-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolad Omitted from AFC Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran\u2019s Foolad football team was omitted from the 2015 AFC Champions League group stage, losing to Al Sadd of Qatar Tuesday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Guangzhou Evergrande striker Muriqui scored the only goal of the match in the 42nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the hour mark, Foolad\u2019s Ahmad Al Nameh was just off target with a well-taken free kick from 25 yards out.<\/p>\n<p>Foolad went closer still in the 70th minute, only for Mohasen Mosalman\u2019s free kick from the left to come back off the upright, denying the Iranians a goal and ensuring Al Sadd picked up all three points and progressed to the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia defeated Lokomotiv Tashkent of Uzbekistan 2-1 in its away game.<\/p>\n<p>Al Sadd and Al Hilal advanced to the Round of 16 from Group C with 10 points, while Foolad remains rooted to the bottom of the standings with three points. Lokomotiv is in third place on four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Iran\u2019s Foolad football team was omitted from the 2015 AFC Champions League&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1016,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208","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=21208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}