{"id":34885,"date":"2019-01-07T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34885"},"modified":"2019-01-07T07:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:00:23","slug":"asian-cup-carlos-queiroz-praises-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/07\/asian-cup-carlos-queiroz-praises-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Cup: Carlos Queiroz praises India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>Iran national football team coach Carlos Queiroz lavished huge praise on the Blue Tigers after their emphatic 4-1 victory over Thailand in their 2019 AFC Asian Cup opener.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A brace by Sunil Chhetri and one each apiece by Anirudh Thapa and substitute Jeje Lalpekhlua saw the Indian team surges to the top of Group A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Portuguese coach, who has been the longest-serving coach for the Iranian national team, felt India has improved tremendously over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is a completely different team since we played them. I saw you guys playing recently. The Indian team has made great progress,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Queiroz was referring to the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 qualifiers when Team Melli registered two comfortable victories (3-0 in Bengaluru and 4-0 in Tehran) over the Blue Tigers to cement its berth in the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019, as well as progress to the next round of FIFA World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is a brilliant win and a very good performance. I would like to congratulate not only coach Constantine but the entire team and the supporters. It has been a fantastic result for the team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When you perform like this in the first game of the Asian Cup, it only shows that you are going in the right direction,&#8221; Queiroz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ABU DHABI, Iran national football team coach Carlos Queiroz lavished huge praise on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news"],"views":549,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34885","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=34885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34887,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34885\/revisions\/34887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}