{"id":11194,"date":"2010-04-26T16:13:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/26\/iran-line-up-japan-south-korea-friendlies\/"},"modified":"2010-04-26T16:13:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:13:35","slug":"iran-line-up-japan-south-korea-friendlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/26\/iran-line-up-japan-south-korea-friendlies\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran line up Japan, South Korea friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Iran-Japan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Iran-Japan.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"350\" \/>AFP &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 <strong><span id=\"lw_1272283778_0\">Iran<\/span> will play  east Asian football powerhouses <span id=\"lw_1272283778_1\">Japan<\/span> and <span id=\"lw_1272283778_2\">South Korea early September<\/span> as they prepare  for a strong 2011 <span id=\"lw_1272283778_3\">Asian  Cup<\/span> showing, the <span id=\"lw_1272283778_4\">ISNA  news agency<\/span> reported Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s announcement for the friendlies comes three days after the <span id=\"lw_1272283778_5\">Asian Cup finals<\/span> draw  placed the country alongside defending champions and neighbours <span id=\"lw_1272283778_6\">Iraq<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"sidebar\"><span id=\"lw_1272283778_7\"><br \/>North  Korea<\/span>, one of four Asian teams involved in this year&#8217;s World Cup  in <span id=\"lw_1272283778_8\">South Africa<\/span>,  and the <span id=\"lw_1272283778_9\">United Arab  Emirates<\/span> have also been drawn in group D for Asia&#8217;s biggest  football tournament, which will be held in <span id=\"lw_1272283778_10\">Qatar<\/span> from January 7-29, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The match with <span id=\"lw_1272283778_11\">South  Korea<\/span> is fixed for <span id=\"lw_1272283778_12\">September  7<\/span> and we are negotiating with the Japanese football federation  to play a friendly match on <span id=\"lw_1272283778_13\">September 4<\/span>,&#8221; said Abbas Torabian of the  Iranian football federation.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, who failed to make it to the World Cup, will travel to Asia to  play the games against Japan and South Korea, both of whom will appear  in the upcoming World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Team Melli, with a current FIFA ranking of 63 that puts them  behind <span id=\"lw_1272283778_14\">Australia<\/span>,  South Korea and <span id=\"lw_1272283778_15\">Saudi  Arabia<\/span>, have won the Asian Cup three times\u2014in 1968, 1972 and  1976\u2014and were hosts of the event in 1968 and 1976.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 Iran will play east Asian football powerhouses Japan and South Korea early&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3809,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}