{"id":30247,"date":"2017-12-29T14:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T22:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30247"},"modified":"2017-12-29T14:21:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T22:21:31","slug":"spain-coach-julen-lopetegui-praises-team-melli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/12\/29\/spain-coach-julen-lopetegui-praises-team-melli\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain coach Julen Lopetegui praises Team Melli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MADRID, <strong>Spain national football team head coach Julen Lopetegui has praised the Iranian national football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with channel Movistar, the Spaniard has said Team Melli is a powerful team.<\/p>\n<p>Spain have been drawn along with Iran, Morocco and Portugal in Group B of the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds will meet Portugal on June 15 and play Team Melli five days later.<\/p>\n<p>Spain will face Morocco in their last group stage match on June 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran are the most powerful team in Asia, while Morocco have qualified for the 2018 World Cup ahead of Ivory Coast,\u201d Lopetegui said.<\/p>\n<p>Lopetegui also said the opening match against Portugal could be a final match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The game [with Portugal] could be a final. We will try to get there in the best possible way and with great humility,&#8221; said the Spanish coach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Portuguese national team are European champions and have their best players in history and a great generation guided by a very experienced coach,&#8221; Lopetegui added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MADRID, Spain national football team head coach Julen Lopetegui has praised the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86,1,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30247","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-uncategorized","category-world-cup"],"views":1871,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247","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=30247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}