{"id":24887,"date":"2016-04-12T17:29:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24887"},"modified":"2016-04-12T17:29:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:29:49","slug":"iff-president-kaffshian-has-a-good-feeling-after-world-cup-qualifying-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/04\/12\/iff-president-kaffshian-has-a-good-feeling-after-world-cup-qualifying-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"IFF President Kaffshian has a \u2018Good Feeling\u2019 after World Cup Qualifying Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Head of the Iranian Football Federation Ali Kaffashian says that Team Melli has a great chance of reaching the World Cup 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran has been pitted against South Korea, Uzbekistan, 2022 World Cup host Qatar, Syria and China in Group A of the last round of qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams in each group qualify automatically, with the third-placed teams playing off for a shot at an inter-continental qualifier against the fourth-placed team from CONCACAF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that both groups are difficult but I think Group A is easier than Group B. We have already played with South Korea, Uzbekistan and Qatar teams and I think we have a great chance of reaching the 2018 World Cup,\u201d Kaffashian said.<\/p>\n<p>The IFF head said that Queiroz will remain Iran coach in the qualifying round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that Queiroz will participate at the competition with a well-prepared team to book a place at the World Cup,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Head of the Iranian Football Federation Ali Kaffashian says that Team Melli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1495,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887","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=24887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}