{"id":35104,"date":"2019-01-19T11:58:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T19:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35104"},"modified":"2019-01-19T11:58:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T19:58:47","slug":"oman-determined-to-create-history-against-iran-ahmed-al-mahaijri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/19\/oman-determined-to-create-history-against-iran-ahmed-al-mahaijri\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman determined to create history against Iran: Ahmed Al Mahaijri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tasnim &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>Oman national football team skipper Ahmed Al Mahaijri says that they not daunted with the prospect of facing Continent&#8217;s top ranked team Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oman will take on Iran in its AFC Asian Cup Round of 16 tie at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Iran is a very strong team but so are we. We played Japan and Uzbekistan and we showed that we can hold our own against teams who are ranked much higher than us,&#8221; said Al Mahaijri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We have already created history by making the knockout stage but we are not satisfied with just that. We want to create more history,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oman advanced to the Round of 16 as one of the four best third-placed teams, qualifying for the knockout stage for the first time in four appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What we showed in all three matches is that we will fight till the final second. We are a team and we complement one another very well,&#8221; said the midfielder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Playing Iran is something that we are really looking forward to. These are the kind of games we want to play. It will be a difficult match for us but we will make it difficult for Iran too. We want to give more joy to our fans and we are aiming to do just that,&#8221; Al Mahaijri said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ABU DHABI, Oman national football team skipper Ahmed Al Mahaijri says that they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35104","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","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":955,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35104","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=35104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35106,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35104\/revisions\/35106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}