{"id":32341,"date":"2018-06-14T11:24:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T18:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32341"},"modified":"2018-06-14T11:24:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T18:24:44","slug":"iran-players-are-feeling-the-stress-masoud-shojaei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/14\/iran-players-are-feeling-the-stress-masoud-shojaei\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran players are feeling the stress: Masoud Shojaei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four Four Two &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG,<strong> Iran captain Masoud Shojaei said on Thursday that even Iran&#8217;s experienced players were feeling the stress of playing at the FIFA World Cup but would enjoy the tournament in Russia nonetheless.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran will face Morocco at the 67,000-seater St. Petersburg Stadium in their first match at the World Cup on Friday. The game will kick off at 6 p.m. Moscow time (01:00 AEST).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A great tournament is ahead of us. Even our experienced players are feeling the stress. But as the captain I think that we can enjoy football&#8230; I am very happy to be here. We are all waiting for the first match [against Morocco] to show what we are capable of,&#8221; Shojaei told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Shojaei added that the team would do anything it takes to make Iranians proud of them.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will also play 2010 World Cup champions Spain and Euro 2016 winners Portugal in Group B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Four Two &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG, Iran captain Masoud Shojaei said on Thursday that even&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,89,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32341","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":2148,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32341","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=32341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32343,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32341\/revisions\/32343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}