{"id":24766,"date":"2016-04-03T17:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T00:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24766"},"modified":"2016-04-03T17:55:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T00:55:57","slug":"azmoun-would-like-to-face-saudi-arabia-in-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/04\/03\/azmoun-would-like-to-face-saudi-arabia-in-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Azmoun would like to face Saudi Arabia in World Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ROSTOV, <strong>Iranian international striker Sardar Azmoun, who has scored three goals in the last two games for his country, would like to face Saudi Arabia in the third round of 2018 World Cup qualification in Asia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were confident that we\u2019ll take the six points in the two remaining games against India and Oman. Fortunately I scored three goals and we advanced as the group winner,\u201d Azmoun said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to face Saudi Arabia in the third round because we have a big motivation to play against them. But at the end we aim to qualify for the World Cup and it doesn\u2019t matter which team we will face,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Azmoun then talked about his conditions at FC Rostov and his future at the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are at the top of Russian Premier League and I hope we could win the title this season.<br \/>\nPeople have named us as the Russian Leicester City, I hope we keep it up and surprise everyone by winning the title. If Leicester can do it, so can we,\u201d Azmoun added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are always rumors in the transfer market but at the moment I\u2019m focused on Rostov, at the end of the season we will see what happens,\u201d the 21-year-old striker added.<\/p>\n<p>The draw for the third round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, where the 12 teams will be split into two groups and the top two from each advance to Russia 2018, will take place on April 12th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ROSTOV, Iranian international striker Sardar Azmoun, who has scored three goals in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2273,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24766","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=24766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}