{"id":54963,"date":"2026-06-04T15:47:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54963"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:47:52","slug":"friendly-iran-defeats-mali-behind-closed-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/06\/04\/friendly-iran-defeats-mali-behind-closed-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendly: Iran defeats Mali behind closed doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ANTALYA, <strong>Iran football team defeated Mali 2-0 in a friendly match behind closed doors Thursday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saeid Ezatolahi was on target in the 12th minute and Ramin Rezaeian doubled the advantage in the 55th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Amir Ghalenoei\u2019s squad previously defeated Gambia 3\u20131 in their first friendly match of the camp.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will depart Antalya, Turkey for Tijuana, Mexico, where the Persians will hold their training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli are drawn in Group G along with Belgium, Egypt, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ANTALYA, Iran football team defeated Mali 2-0 in a friendly match behind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54963","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":183,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54963","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=54963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54965,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54963\/revisions\/54965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}