{"id":28977,"date":"2017-09-02T17:50:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T00:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28977"},"modified":"2017-09-02T17:50:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T00:50:23","slug":"syrias-al-soma-hopes-of-beating-iran-at-wcq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/09\/02\/syrias-al-soma-hopes-of-beating-iran-at-wcq\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria\u2019s Al Soma hopes of beating Iran at WCQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KRUBONG, <strong>Syria&#8217;s national football team&#8217;s striker Omar Al Soma hopes that they will beat Iran in the 2018 World Cup qualifier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An unlikely win away to Iran on Tuesday coupled with defeat for South Korea by Uzbekistan in the final round would give Syria second spot and direct entry to the finals in Russia next year.<\/p>\n<p>The Syria\u2019s most celebrated footballer due to his goal scoring exploits with Saudi club Al Ahli, celebrated his return with victory over Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to God, my return to the national team was good,\u201d he said after the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that we can bring joy to our people, who need such joy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will give my best in the next match in order to win and hopefully we can qualify for the World Cup,\u201d Al Soma added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KRUBONG, Syria&#8217;s national football team&#8217;s striker Omar Al Soma hopes that they will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28977","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":4955,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28977","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=28977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}