{"id":32793,"date":"2018-07-17T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32793"},"modified":"2018-07-17T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:53:26","slug":"top-5-impressive-nations-at-the-world-cup-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/07\/17\/top-5-impressive-nations-at-the-world-cup-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 impressive nations at the World Cup [Iran]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Sport &#8211; LONDON, <strong>France were expected to go far in the World Cup, but which nations performed beyond their means? Who impressed the most?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Modern football is individualistic. With the media obsessed by personal rivalries and legacies, the collective triumphs of a team can sometimes be pushed to the side. The World Cup, however, is different.<\/p>\n<p>Entire nations sit gripped as their envoys represent them on a global stage, some better represented than others. It\u2019s a testament to the strength in mindset of some countries that the likes of Sweden made the quarter-finals, whilst Croatia finished second. It\u2019s impressive to say the least.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#4 Iran:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran at the World Cup will never be about football only. There are too many narratives to spin and too many agendas to be fed for that.<\/p>\n<p>In Russia, at least the stories were positive. Female faces were a welcome sight amongst the Team Melli support, as Carlos Queiroz&#8217;s modern side impressed in close ties with Portugal and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t qualify, but they proved they were a force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Sport &#8211; LONDON, France were expected to go far in the World Cup, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32793","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":1899,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793","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=32793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32795,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793\/revisions\/32795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}