{"id":37334,"date":"2026-05-09T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/mourinho-iran-deserve-world-cup-place\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:00:15","slug":"mourinho-iran-deserve-world-cup-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/mourinho-iran-deserve-world-cup-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourinho: Iran deserve World Cup place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6016850.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Portuguese well-known coach Jos\u00e9 Mourinho insists Iran national football team deserve to play at the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><span>FIFA President Gianni Infantino has confirmed Iran\u2019s participation in the competition, yet there are still doubts on whether they\u2019ll actually take part in the tournament due to the ongoing tensions in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Donald Trump\u2019s Special Envoy, Paolo Zampolli, has been reiterating that Italy should replace Iran if they don\u2019t show up for the World Cup in June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOne thing is politics, one is sport,\u201d Mourinho concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Iranian players who have qualified for the World Cup, which will involve too many teams, deserve to play it,\u201d Mourinho said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/526223\/Mourinho-Iran-deserve-World-Cup-place\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Portuguese well-known coach Jos\u00e9 Mourinho insists Iran national football team deserve to play at the 2026 World Cup. FIFA President Gianni Infantino has confirmed Iran\u2019s participation in the competition, yet there are still doubts on whether they\u2019ll actually take part in the tournament due to the ongoing tensions in the Middle East. Donald &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-37334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}