{"id":29920,"date":"2017-12-01T22:58:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T06:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29920"},"modified":"2017-12-01T22:58:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T06:58:07","slug":"carlos-queiroz-happy-with-irans-world-cup-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/12\/01\/carlos-queiroz-happy-with-irans-world-cup-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Queiroz happy with Iran\u2019s World Cup draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MOSCOW, <strong>Iran coach Carlos Queiroz says he is personally happy to be drawn with Spain and Portugal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli has been pitted against Spain, Portugal and Morocco in Group B of the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz has some emotional ties to World Cup group opponents.<\/p>\n<p>He is from Portugal and he lived in Spain while coaching Real Madrid in the 2003-04 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a tough group for us, but for me being with Portugal and Spain is very special and very emotional because Portugal is my place and Spain is a very special place for me also as a coach in my career, so I could not choose better,&#8221; Queiroz said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be a very tough competition for us, it would have been no matter what group we were in, but when you are with Spain, a World Cup winner, and Portugal, European champions, it couldn&#8217;t be better for me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has never gotten past the group stage in four World Cup appearances, and Queiroz isn&#8217;t predicting any miracles this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the game finishes I want my players to leave with their heads up,&#8221; Queiroz concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MOSCOW, Iran coach Carlos Queiroz says he is personally happy to be drawn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1588,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29920","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=29920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}