{"id":37070,"date":"2019-07-20T17:28:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T00:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37070"},"modified":"2019-07-20T17:28:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T00:28:34","slug":"iran-aim-to-win-group-c-at-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers-marc-wilmots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/07\/20\/iran-aim-to-win-group-c-at-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers-marc-wilmots\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran aim to win Group C at FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: Marc Wilmots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team head coach Marc Wilmots says that they want to progress as Group C winners at the Asian Qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli have been drawn along with Iraq, Bahrain, Hong Kong and Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I have to say it is certainly not easy at all. All teams will participate at the competition armed to the teeth. And it will be a top-level competition,\u201d the Belgian coach told Iran Football Federation\u2019s website. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe respect all our opponents in the group; however, we are doing our best to win the group,\u201d Wilmots added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will start the campaign with a match against Hong Kong on September 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eight group winners and four best runners-up will advance to the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Finals and the final round of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next best 24 teams from the second round of the joint qualifiers will compete in a separate competition for the remaining 12 slots in the 24-team AFC Asian Cup China 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team head coach Marc Wilmots says that they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37070","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-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2211,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37070","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=37070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37072,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37070\/revisions\/37072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}