{"id":12638,"date":"2011-12-31T08:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/12\/31\/iran-likely-to-play-friendly-match-with-sweden-official\/"},"modified":"2011-12-31T08:55:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:55:57","slug":"iran-likely-to-play-friendly-match-with-sweden-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/12\/31\/iran-likely-to-play-friendly-match-with-sweden-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran likely to play friendly match with Sweden: official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/taj-22.jpg\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football team is likely to play friendly match against Sweden, according to the vice president of the Iranian Football Federation.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Iran is scheduled to face Qatar on February 29 in the World Cup qualifying round and its coach Carlos Queiroz has requested the country\u2019s football officials to hold a friendly match prior that match. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSweden Football Association is interested in playing with Iran as well as one African team,\u201d Mehdi Taj said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Iran and Sweden football have not yet faced each other in an official match. <\/p>\n<p>Iran has already qualified for the final round of World Cup qualifying, while Qatar and Bahrain are trying to book a berth for the stage. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 10 countries will be divided into two groups of five teams, with the top two from each group qualifying for the World Cup. The two third-place teams then meet to decide which one of them goes into an intercontinental playoff for a place at the 2014 finals in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football team is likely to play friendly match against Sweden,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3970,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12638","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=12638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}