{"id":27904,"date":"2017-05-01T16:48:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T23:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27904"},"modified":"2017-05-01T16:48:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T23:48:49","slug":"team-melli-to-face-montenegro-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/01\/team-melli-to-face-montenegro-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli to face Montenegro in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team will play a friendly match with Montenegro in June to get fully prepared for Uzbekistan match in the 2018 World Cup qualifier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match has been scheduled for June 4 at the Podgorica City Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, the best Asian team in FIFA rankings and 28th in the world, will play the European minnow which sits at 62nd in the FIFA rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Iran played out a goalless draw with Montenegro in Austria in May 2014 as part of preparation for the 2014 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will host Uzbekistan on June 12 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Iran lead Group A with 17 points from seven games to date, followed by South Korea and Uzbekistan with 13 and 12 points respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will book their berth in the 2018 World Cup with a draw against Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team will play a friendly match with Montenegro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":6513,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27904","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}