{"id":34542,"date":"2018-12-18T10:44:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34542"},"modified":"2018-12-18T10:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:44:31","slug":"iran-can-end-asian-cup-title-drought-dejagah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/18\/iran-can-end-asian-cup-title-drought-dejagah\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran can end Asian Cup title drought: Dejagah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran midfielder Ashkan Dejagah believes that Team Melli can end their 43-year title drought in the AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The last of Iran\u2019s three triumphs in the AFC Asian Cup was in 1976, meaning that it will be 43 years since Team Melli last won the title by the time the action in UAE 2019 kicks off next January.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli have been drawn with Iraq, Vietnam and Yemen in Group D.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did well in the 2018 World Cup and narrowly missed the chance to reach the knockout phase. Since then, the Asian teams consider us as the favorites to win the title in Asian Cup. We also think it\u2019s time to end the title drought. We want to do our best in the competition and make the Iranian people happy,\u201d Dejagah said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrary to Australia, Japan, Qatar and South Korea, we faced lack of infrastructure. But we don\u2019t care about these problems and will fight tooth and nail to win the title,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralia, Japan, South Korea as well as some Arabian teams are favorites to win the title,\u201d the former VfL Wolfsburg midfielder concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran midfielder Ashkan Dejagah believes that Team Melli can end their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":566,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34542","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=34542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34544,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34542\/revisions\/34544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}