{"id":23996,"date":"2016-01-16T10:41:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T18:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23996"},"modified":"2016-01-16T10:51:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T18:51:45","slug":"khakpour-defends-cheshmi-despite-missing-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/01\/16\/khakpour-defends-cheshmi-despite-missing-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Khakpour defends Cheshmi despite missing penalty [Post-Match comments: VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran coach Mohammad Khakpour said that he is proud of his captain Roozbeh Cheshmi despite missing penalty against Qatar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran lost to Qatar 2-1 in Group A of the AFC U-23 Championship on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Cheshmi missed a penalty in the 68th minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe dominated the game but at the end they\u2019re not going to give any points to the better players, but to the team that scores the most goals,\u201d said Khakpour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy captain, I\u2019m really proud of him and the other players because they did their best, they were putting 100 percent into the game and missing the penalty is just part of the game. It happens and many great players in the world have missed penalties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m so proud of them because they played a great game. They sacrificed for each other and that\u2019s good enough for me,\u201d Iran coach added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Khakpour Post-Match Comments:<br \/>\n<\/strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AFC U23 Championship 2016 - Match #M10 IRN vs QAT Post Match Comment\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v0wg-Vfxeng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Iran coach Mohammad Khakpour said that he is proud of his captain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":23997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,139,156,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-olympics","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1793,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23996","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=23996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}