{"id":12918,"date":"2012-05-08T17:51:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T00:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/08\/iran-to-face-albania-in-may\/"},"modified":"2012-05-08T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T00:51:31","slug":"iran-to-face-albania-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/08\/iran-to-face-albania-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to face Albania in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flagid.org\/vexphotos\/_albania-ukraine.jpg\" height=\"247\" width=\"333\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran found a good replacement for Iraq, announcing a friendly match against Albania on May 27 in Istanbul.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Iran will hold a training camp in Turkey from May 21 and initially planned to face Iraq there, however, due to disagreement on the exact date of the game, the match was never finalized. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, Albania, 84th in the latest FIFA ranking will step in, as the Albanian football federation (FSHF) confirmed on their homepage. <\/p>\n<p>Albania, who face Iran&#8217;s World Cup qualifying opposition Qatar in a friendly game in Madrid on May 22 before travelling to Turkey, fired coach Josip Kuze last December after a string of disappointing results and replaced him with Italian coach Gianni Di Biasi.<\/p>\n<p>The former Udinese Calcio coach so far only helmed the team in a disappointing 1-2 loss in Georgia in February.<\/p>\n<p>Iran a preparing for the final round of World Cup qualifiers which will start in June with Team Melli travelling to Uzbekistan before hosting Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran found a good replacement for Iraq, announcing a friendly match against&#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-12918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3911,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918","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=12918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}