{"id":35612,"date":"2019-03-02T14:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T22:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35612"},"modified":"2019-03-02T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T22:23:06","slug":"zob-ahan-a-strong-rival-for-us-ali-salmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/02\/zob-ahan-a-strong-rival-for-us-ali-salmin\/","title":{"rendered":"Zob Ahan a strong rival for us: Ali Salmin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Al Wasl midfielder Ali <\/strong><g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\"><strong>Salmin<\/strong><\/g><strong> believes that Iranian football club Zob Ahan is a strong opponent for them in the 2019 AFC Champions League.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Wasl is drawn in Group A alongside Iraqi champion Al Zawraa, Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Nassr and Iran\u2019s Zob Ahan. The tenacious midfielder ran the rule over his side\u2019s three opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cZob Ahan will be strong rival for us. It\u2019s a well-known team in the competition because Zob Ahan always participates in the ACL and makes it to the knock-out stages,\u201d Salmin said in an interview with the-afc.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAl Nassr is a big team. Facing the team will probably be the most difficult in the group,\u201d said Salmin about his team\u2019s Matchday One opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBoth teams know each other very well, and it is good that we will start at home against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAl Zawraa is perhaps the team we know least about. But looking at the progress Iraqi football has made in recent years, it suggests we will face a strong side and need to be up to the challenge,&#8221; the midfielder added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBAI, Al Wasl midfielder Ali Salmin believes that Iranian football club Zob Ahan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":520,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612","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=35612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35614,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612\/revisions\/35614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}