{"id":29358,"date":"2017-10-09T13:24:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T20:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29358"},"modified":"2017-10-09T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T20:24:20","slug":"iran-better-than-south-korea-stanislav-cherchesov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/10\/09\/iran-better-than-south-korea-stanislav-cherchesov\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran better than South Korea: Stanislav Cherchesov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KAZAN, <strong>Russia national football coach Stanislav Cherchesov praised Team Melli ahead of the Tuesday\u2019s friendly with the Asian powerhouses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia will face in Kazan Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts of next year\u2019s World Cup were relieved to enjoy a confidence-boosting win in their first international test against South Korea since they were knocked out of the Confederations Cup on home soil at the group stage in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran football team are a unified team but we know how to play against them. I also know Iran are a better team than South Korea,\u201d Cherchesov said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian players are physically strong and they are also a better team than Russia in FIFA ranking,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran are the Asia\u2019s best team and have qualified for the 2018 World Cup without suffering a loss. The team take advantage of a good coach and to play with them is very important for us,\u201d the Russian coach added.<\/p>\n<p>Sardar Azmoun, Saeid Ezatolahi and Milad Mohammadi are three Iranian players who play in the Russian top-flight teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen three Iranian players and I have to say they are playing at a high level,\u201d Cherchesov concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KAZAN, Russia national football coach Stanislav Cherchesov praised Team Melli ahead of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":3767,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29358","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=29358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}