{"id":31937,"date":"2018-05-19T08:11:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T15:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31937"},"modified":"2018-05-19T08:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T15:11:48","slug":"nothing-is-impossible-for-iran-in-world-cup-ghoochannejhad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/05\/19\/nothing-is-impossible-for-iran-in-world-cup-ghoochannejhad\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing is impossible for Iran in World Cup: Ghoochannejhad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran international striker Reza Ghoochannejhad believes &#8220;nothing is impossible&#8221; for Team Melli at this year&#8217;s World Cup in Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli have been drawn in Group B of the 2018 World Cup along with Spain, Morocco and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran national football team will open the campaign with a match against Morocco at Saint Petersburg on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli, meanwhile, face Spain in Kazan on June 20 before meeting Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s Portugal in Saransk five days later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been drawn in a tough group but nothing is impossible for Team Melli. We will prepare ourselves with three warm-up matches against Uzbekistan, Turkey and Greece,\u201d Ghoochannejhad said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran are a strong team in frontline with Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Sardar Azmoun, Karim Ansarifard, Saman Ghoddos and Mehdi Taremi, however, they can&#8217;t yet be sure of a starting place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter who plays in the main team. Team Melli will participate at the 2018 World Cup to book a place in the knockout stage for the first time. That\u2019s really important for us,\u201d the Heerenveen striker concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Ghoochannejhad scored Iran&#8217;s only goal at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran international striker Reza Ghoochannejhad believes &#8220;nothing is impossible&#8221; for Team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,89,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":891,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31937","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=31937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31939,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31937\/revisions\/31939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}