{"id":35218,"date":"2019-01-26T13:36:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T21:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35218"},"modified":"2019-01-26T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T21:36:33","slug":"the-best-is-yet-to-come-karim-ansarifard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/26\/the-best-is-yet-to-come-karim-ansarifard\/","title":{"rendered":"The best is yet to come: Karim Ansarifard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI,<strong> Iran national football team striker Karim Ansarifard lauded Team Melli for impressive run in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup but said that the best is yet to come.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli have secured a place in the Asian Cup semifinals after defeating China 3-0 on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nottingham Forest forward Ansarifard came off the bench to score in stoppage time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFirst, I have to say Team Melli have character, personality and good team spirit. We defeated China 3-0, a team who have style and have improved a lot in the recent years. They worked under guidance a great coach like Marcello Lippi for a couple of years,\u201d Ansarifard said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIran players did their best against China and we dedicate this victory to our people. We will do our best to make them proud of us, that\u2019s why we are here,\u201d he added. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cTeam Melli have two more finals ahead and I hope we can win them. The Iranian players are going to make the people happy in each match. I am very happy to play a small role in these wins,\u201d the former Persepolis striker went on to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli will meet Japan at the Hazza bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIran will do their best performance against Japan. It\u2019s our most important match in the competition but our best is yet to come. Team Melli have not won the trophy for 43 years and it will give the players extra motivation to bring an end to our title drought,\u201d Ansarifard added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, Iran national football team striker Karim Ansarifard lauded Team Melli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35218","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-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1118,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35218","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=35218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35220,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35218\/revisions\/35220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}