{"id":28376,"date":"2017-06-13T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T00:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28376"},"modified":"2017-06-13T17:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T00:20:59","slug":"iran-to-play-russia-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/06\/13\/iran-to-play-russia-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play Russia in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Team Melli (the Iranian national football team) will play a friendly match with 2018 World Cup host Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran head coach Carlos Queiroz said that the match has been scheduled for October 10 in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Iran secured a berth in the 2018 World Cup on Monday after defeating Uzbekistan 2-0 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Iran cemented its position at the top of Group A with 20 points.  South Korea is second with 13 points with one game in hand.  Uzbekistan sits third with 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams in each of Asia&#8217;s two qualifying groups advance automatically to the finals while the teams in third place go through a series of playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Team Melli (the Iranian national football team) will play a friendly match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":8147,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28376","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=28376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}