{"id":32021,"date":"2018-05-24T09:58:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T16:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32021"},"modified":"2018-05-24T09:58:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T16:58:41","slug":"team-melli-to-make-life-hard-for-opponents-masoud-shojaei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/05\/24\/team-melli-to-make-life-hard-for-opponents-masoud-shojaei\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli to make life hard for opponents: Masoud Shojaei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ISTANBUL, <strong>Iran national football team captain Masoud Shojaei says they will not be an easy opponent at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli has been drawn in Group B along with Morocco, Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s men will open the campaign with a match against Morocco, known as Atlas Lions, on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not considered as a favorite in the group but we will show how strong we are,\u201d Shojaei said in an interview with Iran Football Federation\u2019s website.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have a chance of beating Morocco in our first match. Team Melli can advance to the knockout stage with four points,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s very important to me to be able to make the Iranian people happy,\u201d the captain stated.<\/p>\n<p>Shojaei, 33, will be making a record third appearance for Iran at the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ISTANBUL, Iran national football team captain Masoud Shojaei says they will not be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,89,91,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1057,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32021","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=32021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32023,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32021\/revisions\/32023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}