{"id":31460,"date":"2018-04-17T15:56:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T22:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31460"},"modified":"2018-04-17T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T22:56:20","slug":"winfried-schaefer-proud-of-esteghlal-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/17\/winfried-schaefer-proud-of-esteghlal-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Winfried Schaefer proud of Esteghlal players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUWAIT CITY, <strong>Esteghlal football team&#8217;s coach Winfried Schaefer says he is proud of his players after defeating Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Esteghlal secured first place in Group D with a 1-0 win over Saudi Arabian team in Kuwait City, thanks to Vouria Ghafouri&#8217;s goal on Matchday Six of the 2018 AFC Champions League on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very happy because we\u2019ve defeated the champion of Saudi Arabia. After group stage draw, so many people said we would not advance to the knockout stage since we had been drawn in \u2018Group of Death\u2019 but we have qualified for Round of 16 as table-topper,\u201d Schaefer said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could win the AFC Champions League title step by step. Esteghlal needs more time. We have to see what happens in the next days,\u201d the German coach stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy players were excellent against Al Hilal and I congratulate all of them due to their responsibilities,\u201d Schaefer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUWAIT CITY, Esteghlal football team&#8217;s coach Winfried Schaefer says he is proud of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":1065,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31460","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=31460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31462,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31460\/revisions\/31462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}