{"id":34796,"date":"2019-01-02T17:49:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T01:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34796"},"modified":"2019-01-02T17:49:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T01:49:52","slug":"not-easy-to-win-asian-cup-title-majid-hosseini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/02\/not-easy-to-win-asian-cup-title-majid-hosseini\/","title":{"rendered":"Not easy to win Asian Cup title: Majid Hosseini"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Iran national football team defender Majid Hosseini says there is a difficult task ahead of them to win the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli, who have been drawn in Group D along with Yemen, Vietnam and Iraq, are going to end their 43-year title draught in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s men will start the competition with a match against Yemen on January 7 in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosseini, who currently plays at Turkish top flight football team Trabzonspor, replaced injured Rouzbeh Cheshmi in the 2018 World Cup and proved himself as a strong defender in Team Melli line-up against Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cQueiroz is a great coach and we could defeat Morocco in the World Cup with him. He had exact analysis of the teams we played in the World Cup,\u201d Hosseini said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIran will have a difficult task in the AFC Asian Cup since the Asian teams have improved and take advantage of good infrastructure. For example, Qatar have progressed in the recent years and it shows we will have a difficult task in the UAE,\u201d the defender added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cI watched 2015 AFC Asian Cup on TV. Iran were reduced to 10 men in the match against Iraq and lost to the team in penalty shootout. I think the referee\u2019s decision went against us in that match but we have to play in a way which even a mistake cannot stop us. I also hope the officials don\u2019t favor the Arabian teams,\u201d the 22-year-old defender stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am soldier of Team Melli and will do my best in the competition and no matter if I am not in starting lineup,\u201d Hosseini concluded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, Iran national football team defender Majid Hosseini says there is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":459,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34796","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=34796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34798,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34796\/revisions\/34798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}