{"id":28868,"date":"2017-08-24T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28868"},"modified":"2017-08-24T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T22:17:09","slug":"iranian-players-have-unique-power-and-speed-shin-tae-yong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/08\/24\/iranian-players-have-unique-power-and-speed-shin-tae-yong\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Iranian players have unique power and speed&#8221;: Shin Tae-Yong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SEOUL, <strong>South Korea football coach Shin Tae-yong said he thinks Iran is similar to European teams and its players have their unique power and speed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Korean team, currently second in Group A, the last automatic qualification spot, is scheduled to host already-qualified Iran on Aug. 31, and will take on third-placed Uzbekistan five days later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I must say Iran is not the same as other teams in the Middle East,&#8221; Shin said to reporters at the NFC. &#8220;Iranian players have their unique power and speed. They&#8217;re much more like European teams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>South Korea, ranked No. 49 in the world, has not beaten Iran since 2011, suffering 1-0 losses to Iran in their last four meetings. The Korean team also has an inferior overall head-to-head record with nine wins, seven draws and 13 losses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t allow an opening goal to Iran,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We must score first so that we can prevent the opponent from messing with our mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iran is scheduled to land in Seoul on Saturday, which is earlier than the usual arrival time for international matches, Yonhap reported.<\/p>\n<p> Shin said he doesn&#8217;t care about Iran&#8217;s early arrival and said he has been analyzing Team Melli since he took the helm of the national team last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve already finished setting up my defense plan against Iran,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I just have to work with my players (to execute the plan) when our full squad gets assembled next week. And, of course, I could change my plan depending on the players&#8217; fitness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SEOUL, South Korea football coach Shin Tae-yong said he thinks Iran is similar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4829,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28868","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=28868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}