{"id":32146,"date":"2018-05-31T09:42:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32146"},"modified":"2018-05-31T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:42:03","slug":"iran-has-bright-future-at-world-cup-ali-daei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/05\/31\/iran-has-bright-future-at-world-cup-ali-daei\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran has bright future at World Cup: Ali Daei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran great Ali Daei says the future is bright for Iran, as Team Melli looks to get through the group phase at a World Cup for the first time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daei, who is lauded as Iran\u2019s greatest player following a career that saw him crowned Asia\u2019s Player of the Year in 1999 and play for Bayern Munich and Hertha Berlin, said the highly rated Azmoun can use this summer\u2019s tournament to further his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have young strikers and the future will belong to them, especially Sardar Azmoun because he\u2019s really young. He can have a bright future. I\u2019m hoping he can choose the right route, that he can go in the right direction in the future for himself and also for our national team,\u201d Daei told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn in Group B alongside Portugal, Spain and Morocco at the June 14 to July 15 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe World Cup could be a jumping point for many players to change everything,\u201d said Daei. \u201cI\u2019m quite confident Sardar can make a move from Russia to a top-level club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a good team, we\u2019re not an easy team for any Asian team to play against and if we can keep up our standards then there\u2019s no reason why we can\u2019t do well,\u201d Saipa coach added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran great Ali Daei says the future is bright for Iran, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32146","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":864,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32146","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=32146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32148,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32146\/revisions\/32148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}