{"id":28750,"date":"2017-08-05T20:04:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28750"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:04:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:04:14","slug":"korea-will-defeat-iran-in-world-cup-qualifier-park-ji-sung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/08\/05\/korea-will-defeat-iran-in-world-cup-qualifier-park-ji-sung\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea will defeat Iran in World Cup Qualifier: Park Ji-sung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SEOUL, <strong>Former South Korea striker Park Ji-sung believes that they will qualify for the 2018 World Cup after defeating Iran and collecting a draw against Uzbekistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Korea will play already-qualified Iran at home, Aug. 31, and an away match against Uzbekistan, Sept. 5.<\/p>\n<p>The team currently ranks second with 13 points in Group A. For automatic qualification for next year&#8217;s World Cup, the team needs to have at least one win and one draw in its remaining matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the fact that the Korean national football team has to play against strong teams is more positive for Korea. Players will have extra motivation and this will have a positive effect on them,\u201d the former Manchester United forward told Korea Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is fortunate that the team plays Iran at home but we are not good against Uzbekistan in an away match. (Korea&#8217;s last win against Uzbekistan in an away match was in October, 1997.) I think Korea can make World Cup after defeating Iran at home and collecting a draw against Uzbekistan,\u201d Park Ji-sung concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SEOUL, Former South Korea striker Park Ji-sung believes that they will qualify for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28750","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":7188,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28750","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=28750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}