{"id":21858,"date":"2015-06-19T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21858"},"modified":"2015-06-19T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T22:47:10","slug":"best-possible-draw-for-irans-naft-in-acl-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/06\/19\/best-possible-draw-for-irans-naft-in-acl-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Best possible draw for Iran\u2019s Naft in ACL quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Naft Tehran has been drawn against Al Ahli of the UAE in the 2015 AFC Champions League quarter-final. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the AFC Champions League 2015 quarter-final draw ceremony held in the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, last year&#8217;s runner-up Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia was also drawn against Lekhwiya of Qatar. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we got the best possible draw. Naft must live up to its reputation as the only Iranian team in the competition,\u201d Naft Tehran General Manager Mansour Ghanbarzadeh told Tasnim news agency. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaft could have been drawn against West Asian heavyweights Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia and Qatar\u2019s Lekhwiya. We have to prepare ourselves as soon as possible since the quarter-final round will begin in late August,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Naft Tehran has been drawn against Al Ahli of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1738,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858","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=21858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}