{"id":32307,"date":"2018-06-12T19:41:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T02:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32307"},"modified":"2018-06-12T19:41:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T02:41:23","slug":"iran-ready-to-face-morocco-at-2018-world-cup-carlos-queiroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/12\/iran-ready-to-face-morocco-at-2018-world-cup-carlos-queiroz\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran ready to face Morocco at 2018 World Cup: Carlos Queiroz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>XinhuaNet News &#8211; MOSCOW, <strong>Iran&#8217;s national soccer coach Carlos Queiroz said they are completely ready to meet Morocco at the 2018 World Cup, Tehran Times daily reported on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Morocco is an African country but most of their players were born in the European countries and grown up there. They take advantage of a good coach and have also creative players. We respect them a lot and I am sure they respect us a lot too,&#8221; Queiroz told reporters at BaBakovkaamp in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese said his men want to beat Morocco but there is no guarantee to win the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However we can guarantee we will fight until the end. Actions, of course, do speak louder than words, and we want to act,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, making their fifth appearance in the World Cup finals, kick off their campaign against the Atlas Lions in St Petersburg on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz says to defeat the African powerhouses will help them to book a place in the knockout stage for the first time ever, though it will be a difficult task.<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz&#8217;s side, meanwhile, face Spain in Kazan on June 20 before meeting Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s Portugal in Saransk five days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XinhuaNet News &#8211; MOSCOW, Iran&#8217;s national soccer coach Carlos Queiroz said they are completely ready&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32307","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":1738,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32307","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=32307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32309,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32307\/revisions\/32309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}