{"id":35149,"date":"2019-01-22T19:56:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T03:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35149"},"modified":"2019-01-22T19:56:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T03:56:46","slug":"iran-the-best-team-in-asian-cup-maya-yoshida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/22\/iran-the-best-team-in-asian-cup-maya-yoshida\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran the best team in Asian Cup: Maya Yoshida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Japan defender Maya Yoshida believes that Iran national football team is the best team in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Southampton center back played a key role in hard fought 1-0 win over Saudi Arabia on Sunday in the second round of the Asian Cup at the Sharjah Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Iran is currently the best (football playing) country in Asia but most important thing (for now) is that we go to the next round,\u201d Yoshida said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan, Asia&#8217;s second ranked team, will play Vietnam, ranked 17th, in the quarterfinal at the Al Maktoum stadium in Dubai on Thursday before a potential semifinal clash against Iran at the Hazza bin Zayed stadium in Al Ain on Jan. 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don&#8217;t have any information about Vietnam to be honest and we have to be ready for them. I will think about Iran after (we have beaten Vietnam),\u201d the Japan captain added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBAI, Japan defender Maya Yoshida believes that Iran national football team is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":1474,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35149","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=35149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35151,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35149\/revisions\/35151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}