{"id":44834,"date":"2022-01-26T19:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T03:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=44834"},"modified":"2022-01-26T19:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T03:02:34","slug":"we-have-a-tough-match-against-rejuvenated-iraq-skocic%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/we-have-a-tough-match-against-rejuvenated-iraq-skocic%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"We have a tough match against rejuvenated Iraq: Skocic\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football beam coach Dragan Skocic says that they will a tough match against rejuvenated Iraq.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018Persian Leopards\u2019 are scheduled to meet Iraq on Thursday in Group A of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup if defeat Iraq in this match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome players got infected with COVID-19 and it could be a huge blow to our team. The match against Iraq is very important since we can qualify for the 2022 World Cup if we defeat our opponents,\u201d Skocic said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIran have a difficult task ahead but we are ready to beat them. I\u2019ve seen Iraq\u2019s matches in Arab Cup and I have to say they are a good team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSardar Azmoun and Ahmad Nourollahi have missed the match and finding replacement for them is very difficult,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe respect rejuvenated Iraq but we want to beat them,\u201d Skocic stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football beam coach Dragan Skocic says that they will a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":44835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44834","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-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":789,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44834","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=44834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44836,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44834\/revisions\/44836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}