{"id":12365,"date":"2011-08-22T05:47:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T12:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/08\/22\/indonesia-go-up-against-palestine\/"},"modified":"2011-08-22T05:47:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T12:47:20","slug":"indonesia-go-up-against-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/08\/22\/indonesia-go-up-against-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia go up against Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/logo\/ma\/300x200\/indonesia_300x200.jpg\" \/>AFC &#8211; SOLO, <strong>Indonesia will take on Palestine on Monday evening here in the first of  two friendly tune-up matches before embarking on their 2014 FIFA World  Cup third round qualifying against Iran.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The Merah Putih line up against Iran on September 2 in Tehran  but after the match against Palestine travel to Jordan to face the West  Asians in another preparatory game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPalestine has a similar  playing style with Iran and that\u2019s why we picked them for the friendly.  We all know Iran is better than Palestine, but they have a similar style  and also similar size,\u201d Indonesia assistant coach Liestiadi Lo said on  Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Indonesia were drawn into Group E of the third round of Asian qualifying with Iran, Bahrain and Qatar. <\/p>\n<p>According  to Liestiadi, the match would provide a chance for the reserves to  prove themselves. While captain Firman Utina and defender Ricardo  Salampessy are recovering from hamstring injuries, midfielder Ahmad  Bustomi has a thyroid gland problem. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll have a chance to use  almost all the players in the squad, so we\u2019ll have a last look before  deciding on the 18 players who will play against Iran,\u201d Liestiadi said. <\/p>\n<p>Palestine  caretaker coach Abdul Nasser Barakat said: \u201cWe are still looking for a  firm and strong foundation until we get a new coach. All the Palestinian  players are from our domestic league.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; SOLO, Indonesia will take on Palestine on Monday evening here in the first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4015,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365","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=12365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}