{"id":12821,"date":"2012-03-27T19:22:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T02:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/03\/27\/eagles-set-to-face-princes-of-persia\/"},"modified":"2012-03-27T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T02:22:29","slug":"eagles-set-to-face-princes-of-persia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/03\/27\/eagles-set-to-face-princes-of-persia\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles set to face Princes of Persia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.supersport.com\/football\/nigeria\/news\/120327\/Eagles_set_to_face_Princes_of_Persia\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/newafricaanalysis.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Pic-Nigerian-football-team.jpg\" height=\"206\" width=\"380\" \/>SUPERSPORT<\/a> &#8211; LAGOS, <strong>Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles will face Iran\u2019s national football team, the Persian Stars in an international friendly game pending ratification from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The game has been provisionally fixed for April 18 in Tehran, Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the NFF\u2019s technical committee, Chris Green revealed that contact had been made with the Iranian football federation and that a decision on the friendly game would be made in the \u2018shortest possible time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been approached by the Iranian FA and they want a friendly date with the Super Eagles. We are still studying their proposal and (the NFF) will arrive at a decision at the shortest possible time,\u201d Green told SuperSport.com.<\/p>\n<p>The NFF chief then spoke on the upcoming friendly game against seven-time African champions, Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game against Egypt will hold on either April 15 or 16. The host city is Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Egypt is a top side and they will give our national team a very good test,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles are ranked 9th in Africa and 57th in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUPERSPORT &#8211; LAGOS, Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles will face Iran\u2019s national football team, the Persian Stars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4997,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821","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=12821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}