{"id":54947,"date":"2026-05-29T16:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54947"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:52:23","slug":"friendly-iran-defeats-gambia-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/05\/29\/friendly-iran-defeats-gambia-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendly: Iran defeats Gambia [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Msn &#8211; ANTALYA, <strong>The Iran national team came from behind to beat Gambia 3-1 in a World Cup warm-up match in the Turkish city of Antalya.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gambia led through Omar Colley before halftime, but Iran equalised through Aria Yousefi after the break before Ramin Rezaeian and Mehdi Taremi completed the comeback.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly win for Iran, currently camped in Turkey, comes just days after their tournament preparations were disrupted by a base camp relocation to Mexico following approval from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>Iran are scheduled to play all three of their group G matches against New Zealand, Egypt and New Zealand in the United States in the June 11 to July 19 World Cup tournament.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u062e\u0644\u0627\u0635\u0647 \u0628\u0627\u0632\u06cc \u062c\u0630\u0627\u0628 \u0648 \u067e\u0631\u06af\u0644 \u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646 - \u06af\u0627\u0645\u0628\u06cc\u0627\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UDRImFkyau8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Msn &#8211; ANTALYA, The Iran national team came from behind to beat Gambia 3-1 in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54947","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"],"views":137,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54947","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=54947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54950,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54947\/revisions\/54950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}