{"id":28428,"date":"2017-06-19T13:58:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T20:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28428"},"modified":"2017-06-19T13:58:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T20:58:17","slug":"fifa-president-congratulates-iran-on-world-cup-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/06\/19\/fifa-president-congratulates-iran-on-world-cup-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA President congratulates Iran on World Cup qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>President of the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) Gianni Infantino has congratulated Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) on booking a berth in the 2018 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran national football team advanced to successive FIFA World Cups for the first time in their history Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli defeated Uzbekistan 2-0 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Sardar Azmoun and Mehdi Taremi scored for the Persian Gulf country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a 2-0 victory over Uzbekistan on Monday evening in Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran is the third team \u2013 the first in Asia \u2013 to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, joining the host country, Russia, and five-time FIFA World Cup winners Brazil,\u201d said Infantino in a letter addressed to FFIRI president Mehdi Taj.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving now returned to Switzerland from a trip to Korea Republic and China PR, I would like herewith to congratulate you and your national team on this qualification for the biggest single-event sporting competition in the world,\u201d FIFA President wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the second consecutive and fifth overall qualification to the FIFA World Cup for the Islamic Republic of Iran, having previously appeared at football\u2019s showpiece in 1978, 1998, 2006 and 2014. The achievement of the Team Melli is the result of the determination of everyone involved. My sincere congratulations go to the players, coach Carlos Queiroz, the entire technical and medical staff, and the fans. I wish you all the best and am looking forward to seeing you again soon,\u201d Infantino concluded.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, President of the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) Gianni Infantino&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4633,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428","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=28428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}