{"id":13005,"date":"2012-06-07T03:07:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T10:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/06\/07\/iran-to-play-north-korea-syria\/"},"modified":"2012-06-07T03:07:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T10:07:45","slug":"iran-to-play-north-korea-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/06\/07\/iran-to-play-north-korea-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play North Korea, Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-wac.emirates247.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.342500.1295104309!\/image\/3966373633.gif\" style=\"float: right;\" height=\"235\" width=\"300\" \/>PFDC &#8211;&nbsp;TEHRAN &#8211; <strong>The Iranian Football Federation set two friendlies in the upcoming months to prepare for the ongoing FIFA World Cup qualifiers in Asia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will face Syria on the 25th of August just ahead of the important clash with Lebanon in September. Syria hasn&#8217;t participated in a football match for almost a year, staying close to 130th in the world.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea will be the second opposition the Iranians will face on October 10th to prepare for the qualifier six days later in Tehran against South Korea.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Korean&#8217;s last match took place in March where they defeated Turkmenistan 2-1 and Palestine by a brace. They currently rank 89th in the world while Iran stay comfortably at fourth in Asia, 45th in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Although the venues have not been officially announced by the IFF, due to unstable conditions in Syria and North Korea the friendlies will most likely take place in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play their second World Cup qualifying match against Qatar on the 12th in Tehran&#8217;s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211;&nbsp;TEHRAN &#8211; The Iranian Football Federation set two friendlies in the upcoming months to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6441,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}