{"id":37959,"date":"2019-11-15T07:55:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T15:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37959"},"modified":"2019-11-15T07:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T15:55:17","slug":"team-melli-captain-shojaei-apologizes-for-letting-fans-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/11\/15\/team-melli-captain-shojaei-apologizes-for-letting-fans-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli captain Shojaei apologizes for letting fans down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AMMAN, <strong>Iran national football team captain Masoud Shojaei feels responsible for the loss against Iraq in the 2022 World Cup qualifier.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shojaei received his second yellow card in the final minutes of the match for violent conduct and Team Melli suffered a bitter loss in added time in Amman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI apologize to the fans for letting them down,\u201d Shojaei said. \u201cI have always tried my best for Team Melli. I have always tried to make my people happy. I know that how important the win is for the Iranian people. I have nothing to say. I am ashamed of what I have done. I vow to stay strong and work harder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The defeat means that Iran have now lost back-to-back matches in the World Cup Qualifiers having also lost to Bahrain 1-0 last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Iraq are now top of Group C with 10 points while Iran are third, four points adrift of the Iraqis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AMMAN, Iran national football team captain Masoud Shojaei feels responsible for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37959","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-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1372,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37959","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=37959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37961,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37959\/revisions\/37961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}