{"id":22612,"date":"2015-09-09T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22612"},"modified":"2015-09-09T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:00:12","slug":"india-surprised-team-melli-carlos-queiroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/09\/09\/india-surprised-team-melli-carlos-queiroz\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;India surprised Team Melli&#8221; &#8211; Carlos Queiroz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BENGALURU, <strong>Head coach of Iran national team Carlos Queiroz said the Indian football team surprised his team after putting them under pressure particularly in the first half.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran defeated India 3-0 in a Group D clash of the 2018 World Cup qualifier at the Sree Kanteerava stadium in Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p>However, away coach Carlos Queiroz insisted that his side was surprised by India\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI must say the way India started, we were a bit surprised. We didn\u2019t expect them to play with so much determination. They caused us a lot of problems,\u201d the Iran coach said at the post match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to congratulate the players from both teams. It was a good game and a competitive game. Both teams wanted to win and get three points,\u201d Queiroz added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think India played defensively. We felt the pressure in the start and we didn\u2019t expect that. It was necessary for us to fight and play in full concentration. We felt the pressure from India in the first half,\u201d the 62-year-old concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BENGALURU, Head coach of Iran national team Carlos Queiroz said the Indian football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":22613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22612","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":1790,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22612","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=22612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}