{"id":54782,"date":"2026-04-28T17:13:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54782"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:13:58","slug":"north-macedonia-and-iran-friendly-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/04\/28\/north-macedonia-and-iran-friendly-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"North Macedonia and Iran friendly cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The football federations of North Macedonia have officially cancelled their friendly matches against Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cup 2026 preparation camp, where they planned to play friendly matches against domestic clubs as well as national teams.<\/p>\n<p>One of these matches was against North Macedonia. Despite previous agreements and an official statement from the football federation confirming the match, North Macedonia decided to cancel the friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Angola, which was also planned to be one of Iran\u2019s opponents in the U.S. as part of the pre-World Cup preparations, also canceled their fixture.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian Football Federation is currently working to find replacement teams to ensure the team\u2019s training and preparation schedule remains on track.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli are drawn in Group G along with Egypt, Belgium and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The football federations of North Macedonia have officially cancelled their friendly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":305,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54782","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=54782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54784,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54782\/revisions\/54784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}