{"id":12241,"date":"2011-06-23T06:20:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/23\/iran-to-face-metalist-kharkiv-in-austria\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T06:20:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:20:10","slug":"iran-to-face-metalist-kharkiv-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/23\/iran-to-face-metalist-kharkiv-in-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to face Metalist Kharkiv in Austria"},"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=\"208\" width=\"333\" \/>PFDC &#8211; LOIPERSDORF\/VIENNA, <strong>Iran&#8217;s national team will face Ukrainian clubside Metalist Kharkiv in a friendly match during their training camp in Austria. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The game will take place at 18:00 local time on July 4 in Oberwart, near Team Melli&#8217;s training camp in Loipersdorf. <\/p>\n<p>The match will be the first one since Portugese Carlos Queiroz took over and it will be a tough one, considering Metalist finished third in Ukraine&#8217;s Premier League last season and will play in UEFA Europa League next season.<\/p>\n<p>Also the Ukrainians will play two friendly matches before the test against Iran and are expected to be in good shape already at the time of the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will hold their <a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=3627&amp;Itemid=100018\">training camp with 30 players<\/a> from June 25 to July 10, before taking on Madagascar in Tehran in their first official friendly match on July 17.<\/p>\n<p>On July 23 and 28 the Iranian national team will take on Maldives in World Cup qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Another friendly match against Venezuela in Azadi stadium is set for August 10. <\/p>\n<p>On September 2 the next stage of World Cup qualification will kick off in which Iran has to finish among the top two teams in a yet undetermined group of four in order to qualify for the final round of qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; LOIPERSDORF\/VIENNA, Iran&#8217;s national team will face Ukrainian clubside Metalist Kharkiv in a friendly&#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-12241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6277,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241","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=12241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241\/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=12241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}