{"id":19510,"date":"2014-11-03T09:21:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T17:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19510"},"modified":"2014-11-03T09:26:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T17:26:21","slug":"iran-zimbabwe-reaches-agreement-to-play-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/11\/03\/iran-zimbabwe-reaches-agreement-to-play-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Zimbabwe Reach Agreement to Play Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim, TEHRAN \u2013 <strong>Iran and Zimbabwe football federations have reached an agreement to play a friendly match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Mohammad Nabi, the general secretary of Iran Football Federation (IFF), said that Zimbabwe has accepted to come to Tehran to play a friendly with the Iranian national team (also known as Team Melli).<\/p>\n<p>Iran was supposed to play Kenya in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on November 14 but the match was cancelled after the African team demanded $50,000 in cash and travel costs associated with the trip to Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, which is handled by former Real Madrid and Portugal head coach Carlos Quieroz, is preparing itself for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli has been pitted against the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar and Bahrain in Group C of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The competition will be held in Australia from January 9 to 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim, TEHRAN \u2013 Iran and Zimbabwe football federations have reached an agreement to play a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3408,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19510","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}