{"id":50914,"date":"2024-03-23T11:15:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T18:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=50914"},"modified":"2024-03-23T11:15:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T18:15:06","slug":"wcq-2026-iran-coach-amir-ghalenoei-lauds-turkmenistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/03\/23\/wcq-2026-iran-coach-amir-ghalenoei-lauds-turkmenistan\/","title":{"rendered":"WCQ 2026: Iran coach Amir Ghalenoei lauds Turkmenistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Head coach of the Iran national football team Amir Ghalenoei lauded the Turkmenistan football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli defeated the Central Asian team 5-0 Thursday night in Group E of the 2026 World Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurkmenistan is a very good team, most of its players are in the same team and it had the necessary coordination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, even though we didn&#8217;t have ideal preparation, the players performed well and the fans were satisfied,\u201d said Ghalenoei.<\/p>\n<p>The head coach, who steered Iran to the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023 semi-finals, said the two early goals paved the way for the resounding win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We went into a little slump after that but we addressed that at half-time and were completely in control in the second half.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Head coach of the Iran national football team Amir Ghalenoei lauded the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1229,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914","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=50914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50915,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914\/revisions\/50915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}