{"id":35405,"date":"2019-02-05T18:44:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T02:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35405"},"modified":"2019-02-05T18:44:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T02:44:55","slug":"sardar-azmoun-accuses-iran-football-federation-of-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/02\/05\/sardar-azmoun-accuses-iran-football-federation-of-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"Sardar Azmoun accuses Iran football federation of lying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national team striker Sardar Azmoun has accused Iran football federation of telling lies about the 2019 AFC Asian Cup\u2019s preparation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran suffered a heavy 3-0 defeat against Japan in the Asian Cup semifinal and failed to qualify for the final match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after, Carlos Queiroz stepped down\n from his post as Team Melli coach. The Portuguese coach also said \nparticipation at Asian Cup was only possible due to the financial aid \nprovided by the Qatar Football Association.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Azmoun has supported his former \ngaffer and has accused the Iranian federation of withholding the truth \nabout Team Melli\u2019s preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverything the football federation says \nis a lie. The federation did nothing for us, and Qatar paid for \neverything in our training camp in Aspire Academy,\u201d Azmoun said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe flew economy class to Tehran while it \ncould be harmful to a player\u2019s [health] like me who wanted to play 90 \nminutes for his national team.&nbsp; They also said we were given cash prize \nfor beating Oman and China, but they gave us nothing. We don\u2019t want \nawards, we just want them not to lie,\u201d Azmoun, who has recently joined \nZenit, explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow could we have won the title under \nthis circumstance? Besides, from the beginning of the competition many \nput us under pressure by saying Iran must win the title,\u201d Azmoun \nconcluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reporting by Masoud Hossein<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national team striker Sardar Azmoun has accused Iran football federation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2327,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35405","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35407,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35405\/revisions\/35407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}