{"id":24893,"date":"2016-04-12T17:42:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24893"},"modified":"2016-04-12T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:42:04","slug":"south-korea-our-toughest-rival-in-world-cup-qualifying-carlos-queiroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/04\/12\/south-korea-our-toughest-rival-in-world-cup-qualifying-carlos-queiroz\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;South Korea our toughest rival in World Cup Qualifying&#8221;: Carlos Queiroz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iranian national football team&#8217;s coach Carlos Queiroz says that South Korea is Team Melli\u2019s toughest rival at the 2018 World Cup qualifying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Iran was drawn against South Korea, Uzbekistan, 2022 World Cup host Qatar, Syria and China.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will open the campaign against Qatar at home on September 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my opinion, both groups consist of strong teams. We cannot underestimate Syria and Qatar is a strong team as well but our toughest rival is South Korea,&#8221; Queiroz said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve already faced South Korea, Uzbekistan and Qatar in the 2014 World Cup qualifying,\u201d the Portuguese said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked him about his retirement, Queiroz said, \u201cIt is not the right time to talk about the matter. I will hopefully see good events for Team Melli in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iranian national football team&#8217;s coach Carlos Queiroz says that South Korea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24893","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","category-world-cup"],"views":2202,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24893","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=24893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}