{"id":23856,"date":"2016-01-11T13:10:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T21:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23856"},"modified":"2016-01-11T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T21:10:15","slug":"iran-ready-for-afc-u-23-championship-khakpour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/01\/11\/iran-ready-for-afc-u-23-championship-khakpour\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran ready for AFC u-23 championship: Khakpour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran Olympic football coach Mohammad Khakpour said that the team is well-prepared for the AFC U-23 Championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran will face Syria in Group A of the competition at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, the-afc wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are ready for this tournament,\u201d said Khakpour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really proud to have 23 players who are willing to die and sacrifice for their country and do their best for their people and country,\u201d the former Iran national team defender and FIFA World Cup star added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur target is not just to qualify for the Olympics; we are looking at being champion for this tournament. We are looking for first place and hopefully we can achieve that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been working so hard to perform well because the audience has to enjoy the game and enjoy seeing the next stars of Asian football,\u201d Khakpour stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Iran Olympic football coach Mohammad Khakpour said that the team is well-prepared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":22675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23"],"views":1651,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856\/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=23856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}