{"id":25425,"date":"2016-06-11T01:16:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T08:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25425"},"modified":"2016-06-11T01:16:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T08:16:12","slug":"team-melli-is-in-good-condition-mehdi-taj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/06\/11\/team-melli-is-in-good-condition-mehdi-taj\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Team Melli is in good condition&#8221;: Mehdi Taj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>President of Iran Football Federation Mehdi Taj expects positive results when Team Melli starts the 2016 World Cup qualifying.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIran has been drawn in Group A along with South Korea, Uzbekistan, Qatar, China and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen South Korea in its recent international friendly matches and I have to say it is not the team to beat. Uzbekistan and China are good teams but Qatar has hired some foreign players. With all the respect I have for our opponents, I have to say Iran has a better condition than five other teams in the group,\u201d Taj said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran defeated Macedonia and Kyrgyzstan 3-0 and 6-0 respectively as part of its preparation for the World Cup qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believed that the friendly match against Macedonia was good. I also believe that we have to play with the stronger teams but we need time to plan the friendlies. Also, there is no enough budget to arrange the warm-up matches with the powerful teams,\u201d Iran football president added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, President of Iran Football Federation Mehdi Taj expects positive results when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3565,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25425","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=25425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}