{"id":23932,"date":"2016-01-14T08:12:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23932"},"modified":"2016-01-14T08:12:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:12:52","slug":"we-know-qatar-very-well-irans-coach-khakpour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/01\/14\/we-know-qatar-very-well-irans-coach-khakpour\/","title":{"rendered":"We Know Qatar Very Well: Iran\u2019s Coach Khakpour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran coach Mohammad Khakpour says that they are ready to face Qatar in Group A of the AFC U-23 Championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran will face host Qatar on Friday at the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo win against Syria was very important for us since the first match is the most important match in any tournament,\u201d Khakpour said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQatar also showed its strength by coming from 1-0 behind to beat China 3-1. The team has many key players who know how to play against their rivals. I\u2019ve studied Qatar and we know how to play against them,\u201d the former Iran defender said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect a spectacular match between the two teams. The match will bring so many spectators together in the stadium,\u201d Khakpour said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina and Syria have lost their first matches but I believe that they deserve full credit for the way that they play and have still a chance to advance to the next stage,\u201d he concluded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran coach Mohammad Khakpour says that they are ready to face Qatar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23098,"featured_media":23933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":1636,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23932","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\/23098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}