{"id":32468,"date":"2018-06-23T08:49:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32468"},"modified":"2018-06-23T08:51:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:51:50","slug":"diego-costa-insulted-my-family-members-iranian-defender-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/23\/diego-costa-insulted-my-family-members-iranian-defender-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Costa insulted my family members, Iranian defender reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SARANSK, <strong>Iran national football team defender Morteza Pouraliganji has revealed that Spain striker Diego Costa insulted his family members in their match in Group B of the 2018 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La Roja defeated spirited Iran 1-0 thanks to a goal from Costa at the Kazan Arena on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Iranian defender slammed Costa for foul language during the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looked at me and insulted my mother and my sister,\u201d Pouraliganji said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCosta started insulting me after 10 minutes. He wanted to make me angry but I kept my cool,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why he was selected as the Man of the Match because he touched the ball just for five times and accidentally scored a goal,\u201d Pouraliganji stated.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play Portugal on Monday in Saransk and a win over the UEFA champions will see Team Melli into the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will do our best to beat Portugal but we have to see what happens,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SARANSK, Iran national football team defender Morteza Pouraliganji has revealed that Spain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2300,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32468","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=32468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32474,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32468\/revisions\/32474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}