{"id":22845,"date":"2015-10-09T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22845"},"modified":"2015-10-09T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T20:00:39","slug":"we-are-the-best-team-in-waff-u-23-championship-mohammad-khakpour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/10\/09\/we-are-the-best-team-in-waff-u-23-championship-mohammad-khakpour\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are the best team in WAFF U-23 Championship&#8221; &#8211; Mohammad Khakpour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran U-23 football team head coach Mohammad Khakpour believes that his team is a level higher than other teams in the West Asian Football Federation tournament which is currently underway in Doha, Qatar. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur main goal in this tournament was to test the players and prepare the team for the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship in which we can book a place in the next year\u2019s summer Olympics for the first time in forty years. I believe that we are the best team in West Asia in terms of the players\u2019 technical abilities but we have to be focused on the pitch,\u201d Khakpour told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an important game against Yemen in the semi-final on Saturday. We don\u2019t know much about them so we have to be careful to get the positive result and qualify for the final. Syria is also a very strong side who has a couple of dangerous players. We are in the same group with them in the 2016 AFC U-23 Championships so it would be a very good test if we face them,\u201d Khakpour added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will try our best to win the title and make Iranian fans happy,\u201d former Team Melli defender added. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday host Qatar will face Syria while in the other semi-final game Iran take on Yemen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Iran U-23 football team head coach Mohammad Khakpour believes that his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":22675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2780,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845","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=22845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}