{"id":49224,"date":"2023-06-24T09:38:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T16:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=49224"},"modified":"2023-06-24T09:38:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T16:38:44","slug":"cafa-nations-cup-was-good-for-team-melli-mohsen-bayatinia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/06\/24\/cafa-nations-cup-was-good-for-team-melli-mohsen-bayatinia\/","title":{"rendered":"CAFA Nations Cup was good for Team Melli: Mohsen Bayatinia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The 2023 CAFA Nations Cup was a good tournament for the Iran national team, according to Mohsen Bayatinia, an Iranian expert, who believes that the current situation should be taken into account.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran emerged victorious in the first-ever CAFA Nations Cup, winning the tournament&#8217;s trophy after defeating Uzbekistan 1-0 in the final match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe national team&#8217;s technical staff used the occasion to gather the players and gain a better understanding of them,\u201d said Bayatinia in his interview with the Tehran Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe condition of our football and the priorities of the national team should be taken into account. When I say \u2018condition\u2019, I&#8217;m asking was there a tournament that would be a better fit for us to participate in? Amir Ghalenoei, head coach of the national team, needed to have his players in a training camp. While Iran&#8217;s opponents were playing friendly matches, we couldn&#8217;t reject the tournament and wait for a better one than CAFA,\u201d said the former Iranian football player and current coach.<\/p>\n<p>Some Iranian media and fans questioned Ghalenoei&#8217;s decision to use all of Team Melli&#8217;s top players in the CAFA Nations Cup. However, Bayatinia backed him up in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the first tournament that the new head coach of the national team had all his players available. It was a tournament that the technical staff could field the top players and the young players were also used in the CAFA tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coach had no choice but to play his star players in the tournament to get them more coordinated,\u201d concluded Bayatinia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The 2023 CAFA Nations Cup was a good tournament for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":49225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,213,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-cafa","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":762,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49224","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=49224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49226,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49224\/revisions\/49226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}