{"id":26676,"date":"2016-12-12T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T21:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26676"},"modified":"2016-12-12T13:14:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T21:14:57","slug":"jorge-fossati-optimistic-about-qatars-chance-of-winning-over-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/12\/12\/jorge-fossati-optimistic-about-qatars-chance-of-winning-over-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Fossati optimistic about Qatar&#8217;s chance of winning over Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Qatar coach Jorge Fossati says that they are optimistic about defeating Iran in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Qatar will take on Iran on March 23 in Doha\u2019s Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium.  <\/p>\n<p>Qatar is fifth in the Asia\u2019s 2018 World Cup qualifying with four points while Iran remains top of Group A with 11 points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe match against Iran is our most important game in the return leg. With all respects I have for Iran national football team, I am optimistic about defeating them in Doha,\u201d Fossati said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Iran is a strong team and we have a difficult task ahead of the team but I believe in my players,\u201d the Uruguayan coach added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw Qatar\u2019s 2-0 loss against Iran in Tehran in September. At that time, I was not Qatar coach and don\u2019t want to analyze the match but I have to say that our players have the great potential,\u201d Fossati concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Qatar coach Jorge Fossati says that they are optimistic about defeating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26676","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":2211,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676","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=26676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}