{"id":21749,"date":"2015-06-08T19:34:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T02:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21749"},"modified":"2015-06-08T19:41:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T02:41:37","slug":"cordial-cup-chief-organizer-grubler-lauds-irans-kia-football-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/06\/08\/cordial-cup-chief-organizer-grubler-lauds-irans-kia-football-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cordial Cup chief organizer Grubler lauds Iran\u2019s Kia Football Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KITZBUHEL, <strong>Cordial Cup chief organizer Hans Grubler said that Iran\u2019s Kia Football Academy deservedly advanced to the final of the Cordial Cup held in Austria in late May.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The KIA Football Academy founded by former Iran winger Mehdi Mahdavikia surprised the big teams such as Bayern Munich, VfB Stuttgart and Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the tourney and finished in second place among 64 teams. <\/p>\n<p>Kia Football Academy lost to TSV 1860 Munchen 7-6 on penalties in the final match. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cordial cup is now 18-year-old and a lot of players, who played at the Cordial Cup as young players, are playing now in the different national leagues and national teams. The best examples are Sami Khedira, David Alaba, Thomas M\u00fcller etc,\u201d Cordial Cup chief organizer Hans Grubler told Teamiran.net. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe quality level of the Iranian team was very high and the team lost to TSV 1860 M\u00fcnchen in the final in penalty-shootout. Already in the friendly matches before the tournament, Kia Football Academy showed that the outfit will be a strong team,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKia Football Academy won its matches in the group stage and finally advanced to the Big Final. The Iranian team for example, defeated Bayern Munich in the group stage. It was very good! A big honor for us and our tournament that we could welcome the KIA Academy Football and we hope that Mehdi Mahdavikia\u2019s team come here again next year,\u201d Grubler said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KITZBUHEL, Cordial Cup chief organizer Hans Grubler said that Iran\u2019s Kia Football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2276,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21749","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=21749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}