{"id":35165,"date":"2019-01-23T09:58:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35165"},"modified":"2019-01-23T09:58:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:58:32","slug":"team-melli-capable-of-beating-china-mustafa-denizli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/23\/team-melli-capable-of-beating-china-mustafa-denizli\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli capable of beating China: Mustafa Denizli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Persepolis coach Mustafa Denizli believes that Iran national football team are capable of defeating China.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, Team Melli will face China in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup quarter-finals at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, the UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDefeating Oman in the Round of 16 was a normal thing for Iran. It was predictable,\u201d Denizli said in an interview with Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI believe that Iran have an easy task ahead to beat China. I hope Iran will emerge victorious in the semi-finals and then will beat their opponents in the final match. It does not seem to be too far-fetched to win the title for the Iranian football team as Team Melli take advantage of so many valuable players,\u201d the ex-Persepolis coach added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still unbeaten, and still yet to concede a goal, Iran are building nicely as they look to win their first AFC Asian Cup title since 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow, I am concentrating on my team\u2019s performance in Turkish S\u00fcper Lig and I cannot follow the Asian Cup completely. However, I sometimes follow Iran\u2019s matches in the UAE and I wish them all the best as a person who is interested in them,\u201d the Kas\u0131mpasa coach stated. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have kept my relationship with my Iranian friends and I have good memories of working there,\u201d Denizli concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Persepolis coach Mustafa Denizli believes that Iran national football team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,85,172,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35165","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-c31-pfdc-interviews","category-persepolis","category-uncategorized"],"views":860,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35165","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=35165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35167,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35165\/revisions\/35167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}