{"id":40690,"date":"2020-10-16T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40690"},"modified":"2020-10-16T09:17:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:17:41","slug":"not-easy-playing-against-iran-ali-adnan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/10\/16\/not-easy-playing-against-iran-ali-adnan\/","title":{"rendered":"Not easy playing against Iran: Ali Adnan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iraqi international player Ali Adnan says that playing against Iran in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification is not an easy match.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attack-minded left-back became the first Iraqi player to play in Italy\u2019s Serie A when he signed for Udinese in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 26-year-old then created more history when he moved to North America to play for Vancouver Whitecaps in 2019. By joining the Canadian outfit, Adnan became the first Iraqi-born player to appear in Major League Soccer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRight now, the situation is very difficult for all the national teams in the world. As a country with COVID-19, we are not training or playing games right now. We are not allowed to play games until next year. That\u2019s a hard one for all the teams in the world, especially for Asian national teams,\u201d Adnan told the-afc.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs I\u2019ve said many times, we have a good team. We have young players, we have a good coach, and until now, we have been doing really well. That is why we are first in our qualifying group,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn our group, it is not easy to play against Iran, who appear at the World Cup regularly, or against Bahrain. Qualifying for the World Cup is not easy for a country that hasn\u2019t played in a World Cup for many years. But we have the confidence to qualify and make it to the next World Cup in Qatar,\u201d Adnan concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iraqi international player Ali Adnan says that playing against Iran in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1871,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40690","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=40690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40692,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40690\/revisions\/40692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}