{"id":32184,"date":"2018-06-02T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T21:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32184"},"modified":"2018-06-02T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T21:02:08","slug":"carlos-queiroz-laments-cruel-sanctions-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/02\/carlos-queiroz-laments-cruel-sanctions-against-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Queiroz laments \u2018cruel sanctions\u2019 against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team head coach Carlos Queiroz says the cruel sanctions against Iran have disrupted Team Melli\u2019s preparation for the 2018 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran were scheduled to play Greece and Kosovo football teams in Turkey\u2019s training camp but the matches were canceled and Queiros says Iran\u2019s World Cup preparations were hit by the cancellation of these friendly matches.<\/p>\n<p>Iran have been handed a tough Group B assignment along with Morocco, Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will start the campaign with a match against Morocco on June 15 and Queiroz is concerned about a lack of preparation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of unfair criticism of our preparation and many people say why we do not play Italy while they know that we have not enough resources to arrange these kinds of friendlies. It\u2019s really shameful,\u201d Queiroz told reporters ahead of Iran\u2019s training camp on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey know that Iran is facing cruel sanctions; however, we will not take it into consideration and keep moving forward with strong leadership. I support my players and I know that they will do their best to make history at the 2018 World Cup,\u201d the Portuguese added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sure we will silence our critics with our best performance in the 2018 World Cup,\u201d Queiroz said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked him about the final World Cup list, Queiroz said, \u201cWe are training with 24 players in Turkey but nobody knows about the final list. I will announce the final squad within the next two days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team head coach Carlos Queiroz says the cruel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32184","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":2004,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32184","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=32184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32186,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32184\/revisions\/32186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}