{"id":30304,"date":"2018-01-04T11:19:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T19:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30304"},"modified":"2018-01-04T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T19:19:49","slug":"iran-ahead-of-japan-s-korea-julen-lopetegui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/01\/04\/iran-ahead-of-japan-s-korea-julen-lopetegui\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran ahead of Japan, S. Korea: Julen Lopetegui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MADRID, <strong>Spain national football team coach Julen Lopetegui says that Iran is a better team than Japan and South Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 51-year old coach talked with Spanish daily sports news outlet Marca about his plans for the 2018 World Cup and about La Roja\u2019s Group B opponents: Iran, Morocco and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian squad has been the best team in Asia over the past five years, ahead of Japan and South Korea,\u201d Lopetegui said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPortugal is the \u2018champion of Europe\u2019 as it has \u201cthe best players in history, they have a great generation and they have a coach with a lot of experience,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd one of the toughest teams in Group B, is the Moroccan squad, who excluded the Ivorian team in the World Cup qualifiers,\u201d Lopetegui stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MADRID, Spain national football team coach Julen Lopetegui says that Iran is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1132,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30304","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=30304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}