{"id":12852,"date":"2012-04-11T17:56:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T00:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/04\/11\/iran-to-face-mozambique-in-may\/"},"modified":"2012-04-11T17:56:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T00:56:26","slug":"iran-to-face-mozambique-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/04\/11\/iran-to-face-mozambique-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to face Mozambique in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/62300\/62385hp2.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"300\" \/>PFDC&nbsp; &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran will host Mozambique&#8217;s national team in Tehran&#8217;s Azadi stadium on May 2, Iranian news agency &#8216;ISNA&#8217; reports on Wednesday.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Iran boss Carlos Queiroz set up the game, which must be very special to the Portugese &#8211; Queiroz was born in Nampula, Mozambique and played football for &#8216;Ferrovario de Nampula&#8217; there. <\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Os Mambas&#8217; are currently in 106th position of the FIFA ranking and are helmed by German coach Gert Engels. <\/p>\n<p>A possible friendly match against Iraq on May 1 was turned down in favour of the Mozambique game. <\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s national team will also meet the UAE in a friendly game in Dubai on April 17.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Iranian football federation (IFF) is in negotiations with Kuwait for another friendly match in April or May.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli is gearing up for the World Cup qualifiers against Uzbekistan and Qatar in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC&nbsp; &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran will host Mozambique&#8217;s national team in Tehran&#8217;s Azadi stadium on May&#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-12852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4860,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852","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=12852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}