{"id":34829,"date":"2019-01-04T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T01:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34829"},"modified":"2019-01-05T22:01:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T06:01:06","slug":"we-can-emerge-victorious-if-we-play-as-we-did-in-the-world-cup-omid-ebrahimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/04\/we-can-emerge-victorious-if-we-play-as-we-did-in-the-world-cup-omid-ebrahimi\/","title":{"rendered":"We can emerge victorious if we play as we did in the World Cup: Omid Ebrahimi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>The 2018 World Cup\u2019s performance has boosted Iran national football team confidence, Team Melli defensive midfielder Omid Ebrahimi says.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ebrahimi, 31, stole the show in the 2018 World Cup in Russia where Team Melli narrowly missed the chance to reach the knockout phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran defeated Morocco 1-0, lost to Spain 1-0 and drew 1-1 with Portugal in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Ebrahimi says the 2018 World Cup has boosted their confidence for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, where Team Melli have been drawn in Group D along with Yemen, Vietnam and Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a difficult task ahead because the Asian Cup has brought so many strong teams together. &nbsp;However, we can emerge victorious from our matches if we play as we did in the World Cup. I hope we make our people proud in the competition,\u201d Ebrahimi said in an interview with Varzesh3.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think Australia and Japan are the most powerful teams in this edition. Both teams have the capability of winning the title,\u201d Qatar\u2019s Al Ahli midfielder added. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran were knocked out of the 2015 AFC Asian Cup in the penalty shootout against Iraq and Ebrahimi says it\u2019s time to get revenge on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have not forgotten the defeat and I will do my best in our match against Iraq to take revenge on them,\u201d Ebrahimi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, The 2018 World Cup\u2019s performance has boosted Iran national football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34829","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":823,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34829","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=34829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34858,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34829\/revisions\/34858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}