{"id":12115,"date":"2011-04-26T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/26\/iran-to-play-venezuela-madagascar\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T18:08:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T01:08:07","slug":"iran-to-play-venezuela-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/26\/iran-to-play-venezuela-madagascar\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play Venezuela, Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"neku-scores-jordan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/neku-scores-jordan.jpg\" height=\"279\" width=\"398\" \/>ISNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian national soccer team is to have friendly matches with Venezuela and Madagascar teams.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>These are the first competitions since Portuguese Carlos Queiroz has accepted to coach the Iranian team.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz of Portugal has signed a contract to coach Iran through to the end of the 2014 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz who has acted as the Real Madrid boss took over from Tehran-born US national Afshin Ghotbi, whose contract was not renewed after Iran was knocked out of the 2011 Asian Cup by South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The 57-year-old twice former Manchester United assistant boss was most recently coach of Portugal, whom he took to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Iran began its quest for a fourth World Cup after appearances in 1978, 1998 &#8212; when they memorably beat the United States 2-1 &#8212; and in 2006, when they play the Maldives in their opening qualifier on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Iran meets Venezuela on June 6 and Madagascar on July 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian national soccer team is to have friendly matches with Venezuela and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5471,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115","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=12115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}