{"id":29936,"date":"2017-12-02T10:13:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29936"},"modified":"2017-12-02T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:13:55","slug":"its-a-very-deceptive-group-portugal-coach-fernando-santos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/12\/02\/its-a-very-deceptive-group-portugal-coach-fernando-santos\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a very deceptive group: Portugal coach, Fernando Santos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MOSCOW, <strong>Portugal coach Fernando Santos says his team has a difficult task ahead since they have been drawn into a deceptive and treacherous group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Portugal, the current European champion, has been pitted against Spain, Iran and Morocco in Group B of the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very deceptive and treacherous group. Portugal has to accept that we are one of the favorite but if you look in a bit more detail, you can see it\u2019s very difficult. Spain is naturally favorite, as I\u2019ve always said,\u201d Santos said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran had a good qualifying campaign. They have experience and the coach also, maybe one of the most experienced of this World Cup. Also had a good performance, no defeat, conceded goals only in the last game when it was already qualified. It&#8217;s going to be a difficult tournament,&#8221; Portugal coach added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MOSCOW, Portugal coach Fernando Santos says his team has a difficult task ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2475,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29936","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=29936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}