{"id":34927,"date":"2019-01-08T17:42:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T01:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34927"},"modified":"2019-01-08T17:42:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T01:42:07","slug":"asian-cup-taremi-wants-more-of-the-same-from-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/08\/asian-cup-taremi-wants-more-of-the-same-from-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Cup: Taremi wants more of the same from Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran forward Mehdi Taremi is hoping that his side\u2019s 5-0 win over Yemen in their AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 opening encounter is just the start of things to come.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 26-year-old Al Gharafa favourite scored twice on a night when the three-time Asian champions were rarely troubled by opponents making their debut in the competition as a unified nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran\u2019s impressive victory saw them assume pole position in Group D, a flying start that Taremi believes will stand his side in good stead going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are very grateful to have won the first game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe first game of any tournament is always very important as it is that game which gives you the motivation for the other matches [which are to come].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can now move on with a great win [to our name] and, hopefully, we will be able to continue in a similar manner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taremi\u2019s brace \u2013 the first a neat finish from close-range, and the second a powerful header \u2013 saw him sail to the top of the albeit embryonic goalscoring chart \u2013 a statistic the former Persepolis ace insists he already is paying little attention to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor us, the key thing is for the team to win,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t care who scores and who becomes the top scorer. Of course, as forwards, we have to score and must always be looking to score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHowever, I really don\u2019t think about it that much because the priority is always for the team to win.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranians are next in action on Saturday when they face Vietnam at Abu Dhabi\u2019s Al Nahyan Stadium, with Yemen set to face Iraq in Sharjah on the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ABU DHABI, Islamic Republic of Iran forward Mehdi Taremi is hoping that his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34927","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":1000,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34927","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=34927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34929,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34927\/revisions\/34929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}