{"id":11409,"date":"2010-08-10T18:18:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T01:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/10\/armenia-to-test-irans-mettle\/"},"modified":"2010-08-10T18:18:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T01:18:59","slug":"armenia-to-test-irans-mettle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/10\/armenia-to-test-irans-mettle\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia to test Iran\u2019s mettle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Team_Melli_SK\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Team_Melli_SK.jpg\" height=\"262\" width=\"420\" \/>MNA &#8211; YEREVAN, <strong>Iran is to play a friendly match against Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Afshin Ghotbi\u2019s team has some key players missing such as Ali Karimi, Masoud Shojaei and Andranik Tetymourian; however, Armenia will also be without its Ukraine-based pair Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Artak Dashyan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe selected Armenia as our opponent because they play like Arab teams especially like Iraqis. Armenia is a European team who can be a good experiment for us,\u201d Afshin Ghotbi stated.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn along with Iraq, North Korea and the UAE in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia, who is ranked 96th in FIFA list, has already lost to Belarus 3-1 and defeated Uzbekistan 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>To play against Iran, ranked 64th in the world, will be Armenia\u2019s last test ahead of Euro 2012 qualifications. Vardan Minasyan\u2019s team is in Group B along with Russia, Slovakia, the Republic of Ireland, Macedonia and Andorra.<\/p>\n<p>The warm-up match will take place at the Hrazdan Stadium at 9:00pm local time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; YEREVAN, Iran is to play a friendly match against Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5624,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409","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=11409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}