{"id":29983,"date":"2017-12-05T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29983"},"modified":"2017-12-05T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:32:32","slug":"mustapha-hadji-iran-is-a-very-good-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/12\/05\/mustapha-hadji-iran-is-a-very-good-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustapha Hadji: Iran is a very good team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MOSCOW, <strong>Morocco assistant coach Mustapha Hadji says Iran is a very good team and a very good spirit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Portugal has been drawn in Group B of the 2018 World Cup along with Spain, Portugal and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The African team will open the campaign with Iran on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first game will be our final. It will be a tough game because we watched Iran in qualifying and they have a very good team and a very good spirit,&#8221; Hadji told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But if we win, we have a great opportunity to reach the second round. That&#8217;s what we are coming for,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Hadji, meanwhile, believes Morocco has nothing to lose when facing Portugal and Spain &#8211; who are ranked 3rd and 6th in the world respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are big nations of football and have won everything already,&#8221; said the 1998 African Footballer of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s why we have nothing to lose against these two. We have to play our football and fight &#8211; actually to give everything against them &#8211; because we know that it is not going to be easy. But we can surprise them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MOSCOW, Morocco assistant coach Mustapha Hadji says Iran is a very good team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1654,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29983","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=29983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}