{"id":35995,"date":"2019-04-07T09:06:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T16:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35995"},"modified":"2019-04-07T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T16:06:16","slug":"iran-ready-to-book-place-at-olympic-games-maryam-azmoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/04\/07\/iran-ready-to-book-place-at-olympic-games-maryam-azmoun\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran ready to book place at Olympic Games: Maryam Azmoun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA,\u00a0<strong>Iran\u2019s women\u2019s football team coach Maryam Azmoun says they are ready to beat Chinese Taipei to make their Olympic Games dream come true.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will book a place in the 2020 Olympic Games if defeat their rival in Doha\u2019s Grand Hamad Stadium on Tuesday. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChinese Taipei are a good team and I think they deserved to defeat the Philippines 4-2. We also had to beat the Philippines but failed to take advantage of our chances,\u201d Azmoun said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow, we are ready to make our dream come true. We want to book a place in the Olympic Games for the first-ever time. We have analyzed our opponent and hope to get a good result against them,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFootball has improved a lot in Asia and we have done well so far. The other Asian teams respect Iran as a powerful team and it is satisfying for us,\u201d Azmoun stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the final round, the successful sides of Group A, B and C, will join Australia, DPR Korea, Korea Republic, China PR and Thailand in two groups of four, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the play-offs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two winners from the play-offs will then qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with host and reigning Asian champion Japan.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA,\u00a0Iran\u2019s women\u2019s football team coach Maryam Azmoun says they are ready to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,139,156,86,155,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-irans-u23","category-olympics","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-womens","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":859,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35995","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=35995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35997,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35995\/revisions\/35997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}