{"id":16398,"date":"2013-11-17T11:20:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16398"},"modified":"2013-11-17T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:27:58","slug":"iran-might-play-algeria-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/11\/17\/iran-might-play-algeria-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran might play Algeria in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran will likely play Algeria football team in a friendly, UN Resident Coordinator Gary Lewis said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran was scheduled to face Gabon in a training camp in Lisbon in September as well as a friendly against Sporting Lisbon but the camp was cancelled due to lack of funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am trying to arrange a friendly match between Iran and Algeria since I am in touch with the country\u2019s officials. The African powerhouse will play Iran if the team books a berth in the 2014 World Cup,\u201d Gary Lewis said in Tehran\u2019s Hoveyzeh Hotel on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria will host Burkina Faso on Tuesday in a World Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has already played Algeria twice. The Iranian team beat Algeria 2-1 in the first leg of the Afro-Asian Cup of Nations in September 1991 in Tehran and lost to the team 1-0 in Algiers in October.<\/p>\n<p>Iran qualified for the 2014 World Cup after beating South Korea 1-0 in June. The victory saw Iran reach football&#8217;s premier competition for the fourth time in its history, having previously played in the first round of the 1978, 1998 and 2006 tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran will likely play Algeria football team in a friendly, UN&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3632,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16398","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=16398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}