{"id":34183,"date":"2018-11-17T07:55:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34183"},"modified":"2018-11-17T07:55:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T15:55:19","slug":"carlos-queiroz-criticizes-azadis-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/11\/17\/carlos-queiroz-criticizes-azadis-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Queiroz criticizes Azadi\u2019s pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football coach Carlos Queiroz blamed the quality of Azadi\u2019s pitch in the friendly match against Trinidad and Tobago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran won the match cour\u00adtesy of a lone strike from Karim Ansar\u00adi\u00adfard in the 50th minute at the Aza\u00addi Sta\u00addi\u00adum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUn\u00adfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, the pitch was not so good for both teams as it has been rain\u00ading a lot in Tehran but I think at the end of the day, there were lots of ben\u00ade\u00adfits for both sides. Since 2014 we have not met each oth\u00ader,\u201d Queiroz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was im\u00adpressed with the abil\u00adi\u00adty of the team to fight, to play and to counter-at\u00adtack. I am sure also that un\u00adder oth\u00ader con\u00addi\u00adtions the team would be much bet\u00adter. It was un\u00adfor\u00adtu\u00adnate that with the state of the grass it was not pos\u00adsi\u00adble for the skillful play\u00aders of Iran and es\u00adpe\u00adcial\u00adly the skillful play\u00aders of Trinidad to ex\u00adpress them\u00adselves,\u201d the Portuguese coach added.  <\/p>\n<p>Hav\u00ading played against the Trinidad four years ago, Queiroz said he has seen tremen\u00addous improve\u00adments, say\u00ading the team is much more com\u00adpact, more ag\u00adgres\u00adsive and more organized with young fresh blood in it, Guardian.co.tt reported.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you guys have a good fu\u00adture ahead of you,\u201d said Queiroz. \u201cI want to show my grat\u00adi\u00adtude for this op\u00adpor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to work to\u00adgeth\u00ader. It is al\u00adways a fan\u00adtas\u00adtic op\u00adpor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty for our players be\u00adcause we play against play\u00aders with good tech\u00adnique, speed, great at\u00adti\u00adtude and phys\u00adi\u00adcal pow\u00ader, and it\u2019s al\u00adways an op\u00adpor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty for us to learn and progress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football coach Carlos Queiroz blamed the quality of Azadi\u2019s pitch in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":1033,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34183","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=34183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34185,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34183\/revisions\/34185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}