{"id":11700,"date":"2010-12-06T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/06\/iran-to-play-qatar-in-tune-up\/"},"modified":"2010-12-06T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:32:00","slug":"iran-to-play-qatar-in-tune-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/06\/iran-to-play-qatar-in-tune-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play Qatar in tune-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"ghotbi_press_conference\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ghotbi_press_conference.jpg\" height=\"246\" width=\"358\" \/>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran will play two internationals with AFC Asian Cup hosts Qatar in  December to prepare for the next year\u2019s continental showpiece. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran coach Afshin Ghotbi told Iran Football Association\u2019s  website that Team Melli will have a training camp in Dubai from December  24 and will meet Bruno Metsu\u2019s charges on December 28 and 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the second match, we want to give chance to those players who will not play in the first game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the team will play two more internationals on January 2 and 3 before returning to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players will have a three-day rest before we fly to Doha on January 6.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He  said he could not go to Yemen to watch AFC Asian Cup rivals Iraq and  UAE in the Gulf Cup but efforts are on to get videos of matches  involving these teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are trying to get videos of UAE and Iraq. We have a tough group but I believe all the teams would like to win the title.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghotbi  will travel to Germany this week to watch Wolfsburg\u2019s Iranian-German  midfielder Ashkan Dejagah play against Kaiserslautern on December 11. <\/p>\n<p>Dejagah, however, represented German U-21 team several times and has not yet received green light from FIFA to represent Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran will play two internationals with AFC Asian Cup hosts Qatar in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2888,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}