{"id":44723,"date":"2022-01-16T09:37:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T17:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=44723"},"modified":"2022-01-16T09:37:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T17:37:59","slug":"we-want-to-make-history-at-the-2022-afc-womens-asian-cup-zohreh-koudaei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/01\/16\/we-want-to-make-history-at-the-2022-afc-womens-asian-cup-zohreh-koudaei\/","title":{"rendered":"We want to make history at the 2022 AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup: Zohreh Koudaei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MUMBAI, <strong>Iran\u2019s women\u2019s football team goalkeeper Zohreh Koudaei says that they want to make history once again in the Asian football stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran pulled off a stunning upset in late September to qualify for their first ever AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maryam Irandoost\u2019s girls defeated Jordan 4-2 on penalties after a goalless draw to book their place in India.&nbsp;Koudaei saved two penalties and helped Iran to qualify for the 2022 Women\u2019s Asian Cup. The match had ended in a goalless draw but was decided on penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are well-prepared for the competition and want to make history once again. Our team held a nine-day training camp in Kish Island prior to the campaign. I think the camp was very helpful,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goalie was accused of being a man by the Jordan Football Association after the qualifying match and they submitted a &#8220;gender verification check&#8221;, which was then rejected by the AFC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank all the people who supported me during the tough times. Now, it\u2019s over and I am looking forward to do my best in the AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have been drawn along with China, who are eight-time winners. India, as hosts, will be a difficult opponent and Chinese Taipei are also strong. But we want to make our nation proud in the competition,\u201d Koudaei stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will start the competition with a match against India in Group A on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MUMBAI, Iran\u2019s women\u2019s football team goalkeeper Zohreh Koudaei says that they want&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":44724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,89,93,86,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-womens"],"views":790,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44723","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=44723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44725,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44723\/revisions\/44725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}