{"id":12964,"date":"2012-05-22T20:54:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T03:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/22\/albania-defeat-qatar-in-friendly\/"},"modified":"2012-05-22T20:54:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T03:54:42","slug":"albania-defeat-qatar-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/22\/albania-defeat-qatar-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Albania defeat Qatar in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/new.qfa.com.qa\/Data\/Sites\/1\/albaniaedgeqatarinhard-foughtfriendly.jpg\" height=\"220\" width=\"321\" \/>PFDC &#8211; MADRID, <strong>Iran&#8217;s upcoming friendly match opponents Albania have defeated Iran&#8217;s World Cup qualifying opposition Qatar 2-1 in a friendly match in Madrid on Tuesday evening.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>After a goalless first half in Rayo Vallecano&#8217;s stadium, Chornomorets Odesa (UKR) midfielder Elis Bakaj made it 1-0 for Albania just a minute into the second interval. <\/p>\n<p>Just a few minutes later, AC Siena (ITA) striker Erjon Bogdani scored his 16th goal for the national team side from the penalty spot, becoming the sole best Albanian international goalscorer ever. <\/p>\n<p>PAS Giannina (GRE) midfielder Emiljan Vila had been brought down inside the box. <\/p>\n<p>Al Sadd striker Yousef Ahmed&#8217;s goal shortly afterwards should be no more than a consolidation for Qatar. <\/p>\n<p>Albania will now travel to Turkey to face Iran in a friendly match in Istanbul on May 27 whereas Qatar return home to take on Palestine in another friendly match before facing South Korea in World Cup qualifiers. <\/p>\n<p>Iran will take on Uzbekistan (June 3) and Qatar (June 12) in World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; MADRID, Iran&#8217;s upcoming friendly match opponents Albania have defeated Iran&#8217;s World Cup qualifying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4273,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964","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=12964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}