{"id":32471,"date":"2018-06-23T08:51:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32471"},"modified":"2018-06-23T08:51:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T15:51:14","slug":"portugal-is-my-greatest-match-ever-carlos-queiroz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/23\/portugal-is-my-greatest-match-ever-carlos-queiroz\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal is my greatest match ever: Carlos Queiroz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SARANSK, <strong>Iran national football team head coach Carlos Queiroz says Team Melli match against Portugal is his greatest match ever in his seven-year spell in Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite their defeat against La Roja, Iran&#8217;s fate is still in their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happens in Spain&#8217;s final group match against Morocco, the Iranians know that a win over Portugal will see them into the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurely, we have a very difficult match against one of the strongest teams in the world. Team Melli have a big task ahead. In my seven-year career, the Portugal match is the most interesting and important match for me,\u201d Queiroz told the reporters in training camp in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA victory over Portugal will see us into knockout stage and our players have a massive task ahead,\u201d the Portuguese added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve created an opportunity to put ourselves on the verge of qualifying for the next stage after beating Morocco, while many people said we would not get a chance to advance to the next stage,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make the Iranian people\u2019s dreams come true and I feel responsible when I\u2019m here. I just hope we learn from the past,\u201d Queiroz stated.  <\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz also hit out at Iran and Spain referee Andres Cunha, saying the Uruguayan\u2019s decisions went against Team Melli.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect the big performances from the referees. In our previous match, the Spanish players talked to the referee constantly and I think they had big impacts on the referee\u2019s decisions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SARANSK, Iran national football team head coach Carlos Queiroz says Team Melli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32471","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":1548,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32471","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=32471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32473,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32471\/revisions\/32473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}