{"id":49127,"date":"2023-06-13T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=49127"},"modified":"2023-06-13T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T21:00:06","slug":"cafa-nations-cup-good-prep-event-for-team-melli-amir-ghalenoei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/06\/13\/cafa-nations-cup-good-prep-event-for-team-melli-amir-ghalenoei\/","title":{"rendered":"CAFA Nations Cup good prep event for Team Melli: Amir Ghalenoei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BISHKEK, <strong>Iran national football team head coach believes that the 2023 CAFA Nations Cup is a good opportunity for Team Melli to prepare for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran will start the campaign on Tuesday with a match against Afghanistan in Group B in Bishkek. Team Melli will also play host Kyrgyzstan on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Group A consists of host Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Oman.<\/p>\n<p>Except for Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, the remaining teams are part of the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023 cast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe respect Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan and look to do our best against two teams. Football provides a common language for all nations and all the people can enjoy that,\u201d Ghalenoei said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2023 CAFA Nations Cup can be a good tournament for the Asian teams ahead of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that the tournament will bring more powerful teams together in the next editions. Our priority in the competition is to respect the opponents and enjoying football,\u201d Ghalenoei said.<\/p>\n<p>The respective group winners will face off in the final while the runners-up will play for third place, with both matches scheduled for June 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BISHKEK, Iran national football team head coach believes that the 2023 CAFA Nations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":49128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,213,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-cafa","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":698,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49127","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=49127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49129,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49127\/revisions\/49129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}