{"id":51122,"date":"2024-04-27T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T17:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51122"},"modified":"2024-04-27T10:39:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T17:39:51","slug":"afc-futsal-asian-cup-thailand-coach-rodrigo-eyes-historic-win-over-iran-in-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/04\/27\/afc-futsal-asian-cup-thailand-coach-rodrigo-eyes-historic-win-over-iran-in-final\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Futsal Asian Cup: Thailand coach Rodrigo eyes historic win over Iran in final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BANGKOK, <strong>Head coach Miguel Rodrigo is eyeing a historic win for Thailand when they face 12-time champion Iran in the AFC Futsal Asian Cup Thailand 2024 final at Bangkok Arena on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Spanish tactician, who clinched consecutive titles with Japan in 2012 and 2014, firmly believes that two-time runner up Thailand can finally lift the trophy on home soil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re facing the kings of Asia, the best and one of the top four in the world. It&#8217;s a significant challenge for us as Thailand has never won this title. Being the host and playing against Iran, the crowd&#8217;s support is crucial. I&#8217;m confident they will back us in this critical moment,\u201d said Rodrigo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are Iran, and while they can&#8217;t be defeated normally, this tournament has shown that they&#8217;re not invincible. We have our chances, and I believe in my players. I tell them not to stop now. It&#8217;s a very important moment for us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BANGKOK, Head coach Miguel Rodrigo is eyeing a historic win for Thailand when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,84,88,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1072,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51122","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=51122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51124,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51122\/revisions\/51124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}