{"id":12878,"date":"2012-04-20T16:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T23:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/04\/20\/iran-to-play-iraq-in-may\/"},"modified":"2012-04-20T16:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T23:57:04","slug":"iran-to-play-iraq-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/04\/20\/iran-to-play-iraq-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play Iraq in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"iraq_champ_01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/iraq_champ_01.jpg\" height=\"216\" width=\"320\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran annouced Iraq as opponents for the first of two friendly matches during their training camp in May.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The match will be played on May 26 in Turkey, where Team Melli will hold a training camp near Istanbul, Iranian news agency ISNA confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>A second match is planned with the opposition still to be announced. Earlier reports suggested Japan would be an option as they are planning a training camp in Turkey as well and are looking for a good friendly match there. <\/p>\n<p>Iran coach Carlos Queiroz currently is in Turkey to check the local facilities, but will return to Tehran on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Iran are gearing up for the World Cup qualifiers against Uzbekistan (Tashkent, June 3) and Qatar (Tehran, June 12). <\/p>\n<p>Korea Republic and Lebanon are the further two teams in group A, while group B consists of Australia, Japan, Iraq, Jordan and Oman.<\/p>\n<p>The top two of the groups will qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil whereas the two third placed teams and a South American team will compete for another spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran annouced Iraq as opponents for the first of two friendly matches&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3634,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878","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=12878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}