{"id":42539,"date":"2021-06-01T14:38:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T21:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42539"},"modified":"2021-06-01T14:38:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T21:38:55","slug":"hong-kong-ready-for-world-cup-qualification-mixu-paatelainen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/06\/01\/hong-kong-ready-for-world-cup-qualification-mixu-paatelainen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong ready for World Cup Qualification: Mixu Paatelainen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; MANAMA, <strong>Hong Kong football team head coach Mixu Paatelainen said they are ready for the 2022 World Cup Qualification.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hong Kong will start the campaign with a match against Iran in Group C on June 3. The team will also play Asian heavyweights Bahrain and Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am very happy with the squad, a squad of players who are fighters, a squad of players who have fantastic attitude and they are the players I want,\u201d said Paatelainen, whose contract with the Hong Kong Football Association is due to expire next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will face three high level opponents in the event, but I am delighted with the players\u2019 attitude. Everyone is fully committed. In fact, it has been a long time since we last got together and therefore it\u2019s great to see the boys again, talk to them and prepare them for the event,\u201d the Finn added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MANAMA, Hong Kong football team head coach Mixu Paatelainen said they are ready&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42539","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":526,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42539","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=42539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42541,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42539\/revisions\/42541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}