{"id":21810,"date":"2015-06-15T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21810"},"modified":"2015-06-15T09:06:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:06:34","slug":"its-important-to-get-three-points-against-turkmenistan-carlos-queiroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/06\/15\/its-important-to-get-three-points-against-turkmenistan-carlos-queiroz\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s important to get three points against Turkmenistan.&#8221; &#8211; Carlos Queiroz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DASHOGUZ, <strong>Iran coach Carlos Queiroz said that it will be important to defeat Turkmenistan in the 2018 World Cup qualifier opener.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran is scheduled to meet Turkmenistan in Group D in Dashoguz on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli has been drawn with Turkmenistan, India, Guam and Oman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will hopefully get the three points, which is (very) important for us,&#8221; Queiroz said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We respect all the Asian teams. When you start a tournament such as World Cup qualifiers, to get three points is (more) important than everything,&#8221; the Portuguese coach added.<\/p>\n<p>Turkmenistan&#8217;s national football team coach Amangylyc Kocumow insists underdog Turkmenistan has no fear in taking on Iran in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Playing with Iran as a team who has participated in the 2014 World Cup is a good experience for our players,&#8221; Kocumow said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We played South Korea eight years ago and playing with Iran will be our second great match during the years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>173rd-ranked Turkmenistan has never qualified for the World cup finals. The team will face the first-ranked Asian team in Dashoguz on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter if we lose. We are going to learn from the match against a great team such as Iran,&#8221; Kocumow said, adding that his team is not scared of playing Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DASHOGUZ, Iran coach Carlos Queiroz said that it will be important to defeat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2766,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21810","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=21810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}