{"id":31190,"date":"2018-03-23T07:47:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31190"},"modified":"2018-03-23T07:47:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:47:06","slug":"morocco-one-of-the-toughest-matches-mehdi-mahdavikia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/03\/23\/morocco-one-of-the-toughest-matches-mehdi-mahdavikia\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco one of the toughest matches: Mehdi Mahdavikia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; HAMBURG, <strong>Ex-Iran winger Mehdi Mahdavikia says the match against Morocco will be one of Team Melli\u2019s toughest matches in the 2018 FIFA World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran will begin its campaign in Russia against Morocco on 15 June in St Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Iran\u2019s first match against Morocco will be very difficult. It can be a decider match for Team Melli,\u201d Mahdavikia told Gol Bezan website. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Iran wants to qualify for the second round it will have to beat Morocco. Team Melli is drawn in a very difficult groups. Iran defended well against Argentina in the 2014 World Cup and I have to say we are a very good defensive team but Iran must strengthen its attacking line,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball is unpredictable but we have to be optimistic. I think to beat Morocco is very difficult but Carlos Queiroz should choose the best way for upcoming matches against Morocco, Spain and Portugal,\u201d Mahdavikia stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; HAMBURG, Ex-Iran winger Mehdi Mahdavikia says the match against Morocco will be one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2203,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31190","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=31190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31192,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31190\/revisions\/31192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}