{"id":31901,"date":"2018-05-17T15:20:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T22:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31901"},"modified":"2018-05-17T15:25:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T22:25:31","slug":"queiroz-is-optimistic-on-team-mellis-wc-chances-and-trusts-his-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/05\/17\/queiroz-is-optimistic-on-team-mellis-wc-chances-and-trusts-his-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz optimistic on Team Melli&#8217;s WC chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record &#8211; LISBON, <strong>The Iranian coach is optimistic about his squad&#8217;s chances at next months global showpiece.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With less than a month to go before the start of the World Cup, Carlos Queiroz, Iran&#8217;s coach, gave a brief preview of the confrontation with the Portuguese National Team and the chances of his team moving to the &#8216;Round of 16&#8217; in a group that has Spain and Portugal as favorites.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our chances will come from what we do on the pitch. The players will do everything in their power and I trust they can surprise&#8221; he said to the Portuguese newspaper &#8216;Contacto&#8217;. There was no denying that the duel against Portugal will be emotional. &#8220;I would be lying if I did not say that I preferred another opponent. For me it is not a game &#8216;against&#8217; Portugal, but &#8216;with&#8217; Portugal,&#8221; he pointed out. <\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old has managed to qualify for the World Cup with Iran and does not hide his desire to reach his 5th world tournament. &#8220;After 36 years of a career, it is normal to think about it after the World Cup. I am not looking for something new, but I do not put aside a project that allows me to reach the record of five qualifications,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record &#8211; LISBON, The Iranian coach is optimistic about his squad&#8217;s chances at next months&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1468,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31901","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=31901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31905,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31901\/revisions\/31905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}