{"id":29930,"date":"2017-12-02T10:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29930"},"modified":"2017-12-02T10:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:08:18","slug":"we-have-a-hard-match-against-iran-spain-coach-julen-lopetegui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/12\/02\/we-have-a-hard-match-against-iran-spain-coach-julen-lopetegui\/","title":{"rendered":"We have a hard match against Iran: Spain coach, Julen Lopetegui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MOSCOW, <strong>Spain national football team&#8217;s coach Julen Lopetegui says they have been drawn in a hard group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spain has been drawn with Iran, Portugal and Morocco in Group B of the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I\u2019ve already said, we have a tough group. Portugal is champion of Euro and they have fantastic players and takes advantage of an experienced coach,\u201d the Spain coach told the Tasnim News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran is the first team qualified for the 2018 World Cup.  Iran has a good coach Carlos Queiroz, who knows very good Spanish football. We will have a hard match against Iran,\u201d Lopetegui said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked him if he knows the Iranian players, Lopetegui said, \u201cYes. I know some of the Iranian players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorocco also is a good team. Moroccan players are playing in Europe,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Spain will face Portugal on June 15 and meet Iran five days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MOSCOW, Spain national football team&#8217;s coach Julen Lopetegui says they have been drawn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2148,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29930","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=29930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}