{"id":32592,"date":"2018-07-01T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T17:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32592"},"modified":"2018-07-01T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T17:39:29","slug":"we-deserved-more-at-world-cup-masoud-shojaei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/07\/01\/we-deserved-more-at-world-cup-masoud-shojaei\/","title":{"rendered":"We deserved more at World Cup: Masoud Shojaei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team captain Masoud Shojaei says they deserved a place in the 2018 World Cup Round of 16.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran failed to qualify for the next stage with four points, one point behind Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you see, we did our best and I think we deserved to advance to the second round.  The football world respect us for what we achieved in this tournament,\u201d Shojaei said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam Melli made history in the competition, earning four points for the first time. We have been drawn in the Group of Death but snatched four points and it showed we participated in the competition with high-quality players,\u201d the Iran captain added.<\/p>\n<p>Shojaei just played 68 minutes against Morocco as unused substitute against Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarlos Queiroz fielded the best players and I respect his decision. I did my best in training but I am not responsible for picking lineup,\u201d Shojaei said.<\/p>\n<p>Shojaei is the only Iranian player who has played three times in the World Cup finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great honor to represent my country in the World Cup finals for the third time but I\u2019d rather advance to the next stage for the first time,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team captain Masoud Shojaei says they deserved a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,89,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32592","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":1022,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32592","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=32592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32594,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32592\/revisions\/32594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}