{"id":40980,"date":"2020-11-20T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T04:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40980"},"modified":"2020-11-20T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T04:05:16","slug":"ehsan-hajisafi-lauds-new-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/11\/20\/ehsan-hajisafi-lauds-new-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ehsan Hajisafi lauds new generation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran captain Ehsan Hajisafi says that the National Team has been strengthened by the arrival of new players.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, under the guidance of Dragan Skocic, has defeated Uzbekistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina in October and November friendlies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018Persian Leopards\u2019 are preparing for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, where they sit third behind Iraq and Bahrain in Group C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a good performance against Uzbekistan since they are a strong team but we beat them 2-1 in their home. We had not enough time to prepare for the match but emerged victorious in Tashkent,\u201d Hajisafi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran also defeated Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-0 in Sarajevo last week and Haji Safi hailed the new players in this match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe could have won the match with more than two goals. Iran football team have good young players and I hope they can help our team I the future,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBosnia and Herzegovina are a good European team and benefit from good players but we could defeat them. I think Skocic has a good knowledge of our football and can help us in the World Cup qualifiers,\u201d Hajisafi concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran captain Ehsan Hajisafi says that the National Team has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40980","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-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":611,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40980","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=40980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40981,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40980\/revisions\/40981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}