{"id":47428,"date":"2022-11-10T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T21:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=47428"},"modified":"2022-11-10T13:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T21:15:57","slug":"team-melli-defeats-nicaragua-in-pre-wc-friendly-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/11\/10\/team-melli-defeats-nicaragua-in-pre-wc-friendly-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli defeats Nicaragua in pre-WC friendly [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swissinfo.ch &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>With a goal from Mehdi Torabi after a quarter of an hour, the Iranian team led by the Portuguese Carlos Queiroz beat Nicaragua (1-0) in their last preparatory match at home before the start of the World Cup in Qatar 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Iranian team, which only featured local players and those from the Qatari league, boosted their self-esteem with a new victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Queiroz&#8217;s team will arrive in Doha without losing in their last friendly matches.\u00a0They drew with Senegal and beat Uruguay in September.\u00a0They had only lost against Algeria, last June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mehdi Torabi&#8217;s goal was enough for Iran after fifteen minutes.\u00a0He took advantage of a pass from Omid Noorafkan to beat the Nicaraguan team led by Chilean Marco Antonio Figueroa in their first-ever meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pace slowed in the second half due to numerous substitutions and interruptions, but Iran came away with a significant win before starting their World Cup journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Queiroz&#8217;s team is part of Group B of Qatar 2022 along with England, Wales, and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cow7cE5LzWY\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swissinfo.ch &#8211; TEHRAN, With a goal from Mehdi Torabi after a quarter of an hour,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":47429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47428","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","category-world-cup"],"views":2487,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47428","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=47428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47430,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47428\/revisions\/47430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}