{"id":28906,"date":"2017-08-28T15:29:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T22:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28906"},"modified":"2017-08-28T15:29:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T22:29:24","slug":"we-will-play-speedy-football-against-iran-koo-ja-cheol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/08\/28\/we-will-play-speedy-football-against-iran-koo-ja-cheol\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We will play speedy football against Iran&#8221;: Koo Ja-cheol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SEOUL, <strong>FC Augsburg&#8217;s South Korean midfielder Koo Ja-cheol said Monday they will play speedy football against Iran in the World Cup qualifying campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Koo is one of the 26 players who have been called up by head coach Shin Tae-yong for South Korea&#8217;s last two matches in the final Asian qualifying round for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea will host Iran on Thursday and face Uzbekistan in Tashkent five days later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our coach wants us to play speedy football, which is not just about the players running quickly, but also about increasing the speed of the ball movement,&#8221; Ja-cheol told Yonhap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know we have to get three points from this match. We will show our fighting spirit and power of South Korean football,&#8221; the South Korean midfielder added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran sit deep defensively, and they just allow very limited space on defense,&#8221; Koo said. &#8220;It&#8217;s important how we execute tactics as a team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With two matches remaining, Iran has already qualified for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz&#8217;s side is the only team in Asia that has not conceded a goal in the final round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SEOUL, FC Augsburg&#8217;s South Korean midfielder Koo Ja-cheol said Monday they will play&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4239,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28906","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=28906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}