{"id":43416,"date":"2021-09-01T06:55:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43416"},"modified":"2021-09-01T06:55:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:55:39","slug":"syria-coach-mahrous-optimistic-about-wcqs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/09\/01\/syria-coach-mahrous-optimistic-about-wcqs\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria coach Mahrous optimistic about WCQ&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Syria national football team head coach Nizar Mahrous is optimistic about the 2022 World Cup qualification Round 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Syria is scheduled to meet Iran in Group A on Thursday in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis spell is different because we haven\u2019t had much time together before the Qualifiers, though we are optimistic. We hope things will go our way, and if we can manage to get a settled squad, we\u2019ll have the solidity we need to push for qualification,\u201d Mahrous said in an interview with FIFA.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahrous faces a tough task, with Syria drawn into Group A containing Korea Republic, Iran, UAE, Iraq, and Lebanon, a section described by the veteran coach as both \u201ceasy and tough\u201d at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked about his side\u2019s chances, he said, \u201cThere\u2019s not much (difference) between the teams and we\u2019re in with a chance, especially if we have a settled squad. We hope we can identify the line-up that will make us competitive at this vital stage of the Qualifiers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Syria national football team head coach Nizar Mahrous is optimistic about the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43416","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":608,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43416","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=43416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43418,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43416\/revisions\/43418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}