{"id":50655,"date":"2024-02-12T09:46:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=50655"},"modified":"2024-02-12T09:46:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:46:59","slug":"taremi-fails-to-meet-expectations-in-afc-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/02\/12\/taremi-fails-to-meet-expectations-in-afc-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Taremi fails to meet expectations in AFC Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mehdi Taremi was supposed to steal the show in the 2023 AFC Asian Cup and help Iran bring an end to their 48-year-old title drought but failed to live up to the expectations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Taremi has been linked with a move to Serie A side Inter Milan and it seems the striker was distracted by the news during the Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He scored three goals in the tournament, while he was a candidate to be the tournament\u2019s best goalscorer.<\/p>\n<p>Taremi was sent in the match against Syria, where Team Melli earned a hard-fought win over the minnow side in the penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<p>The Porto striker could have played a key role in the match against Qatar in the semifinals but was not in his best form and Iran lost to eventual champions 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the federation football of Iran has asked Amir Ghalenoei to inject fresh blood into Team Melli and the coaching staff must decide on future of the team.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old forward failed to meet expectations in Qatar and is at risk of being replaced by the youngsters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kicker\"><strong>By Masoud Hossein<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN, Mehdi Taremi was supposed to steal the show in the 2023 AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":50656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-cup","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1084,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50655","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\/34468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50658,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50655\/revisions\/50658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}