{"id":47789,"date":"2022-12-25T08:51:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T16:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=47789"},"modified":"2022-12-25T08:51:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T16:51:27","slug":"ffiri-president-taj-apologizes-for-poor-results-at-2022-wc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/12\/25\/ffiri-president-taj-apologizes-for-poor-results-at-2022-wc\/","title":{"rendered":"FFIRI president Taj apologizes for poor results at 2022 WC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>President of Iran football federation Mehdi Taj has apologized to football fans for Team Melli&#8217;s poor performance at the 2022 FIFA World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, headed by Carlos Queiroz, lost to England 6-2 in their opening match and also suffered a 1-0 loss against the U.S. in Group B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran defeated Wales 2-0 and failed to qualify for the World Cup knockout stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taj tendered an apology message via a statement published on the Iran football federation&#8217;s website on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also promised to choose the best option for the National Team for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Media reports suggest that Queiroz, ex-Iran captain Javad Nekounam, and former Iran coaches Branko Ivankovic and Amir Ghalenoei are among the candidates to take charge of Team Melli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, President of Iran football federation Mehdi Taj has apologized to football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1309,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47789","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=47789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47790,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47789\/revisions\/47790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}