{"id":31944,"date":"2018-05-19T18:56:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T01:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31944"},"modified":"2018-05-19T19:01:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T02:01:15","slug":"iriff-unveils-new-team-melli-mascot-at-uzbekistan-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/05\/19\/iriff-unveils-new-team-melli-mascot-at-uzbekistan-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"FFIRI unveils new Team Melli mascot at Uzbekistan friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Yupa, the mascot of the Iranian national football teams, was unveiled ahead of the friendly match between Iran and Uzbekistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli defeated Uzbekistan 1-0 in the warm-up match held in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u2018Yupa\u2019 is derived from the Persian word \u2018Yuzpalang\u2019 means cheetah and \u2018Tizpa\u2019 means fast.  <\/p>\n<p>Yupa has put a Pahlavani wristband on its right hand which is an Iranian symbol and has worn a captain\u2019s armband on its left arm.  <\/p>\n<p>The mascot has been designed by the Iranian designers in the year of \u201cSupporting Iranian Products\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Yupa\u2019 is the mascot of all Iranian football teams representing the country in the international competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Mascot \u2018Yupa\u2019 posed for the cameras during the farewell ceremony of Iran national football team to the 2018 World Cup in Russia on Saturday at the Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli have been drawn in Group B of the 2018 World Cup along with Spain, Morocco and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran national football team will open the campaign with a match against Morocco at Saint Petersburg on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli, meanwhile, face Spain in Kazan on June 20 before meeting Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s Portugal in Saransk five days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Yupa, the mascot of the Iranian national football teams, was unveiled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,1,110,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized","category-world-cup","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2281,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31944","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=31944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31947,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31944\/revisions\/31947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}