{"id":16050,"date":"2013-10-05T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T19:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16050"},"modified":"2013-10-06T05:01:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T12:01:15","slug":"iran-to-play-u-s-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/10\/05\/iran-to-play-u-s-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play U.S. in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran will play the United States for only the third time ever, Iranian Football Federation President Ali Kafashian said on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cU.S. football officials are interested in holding a four-team tournament, featuring the U.S., Iran, a South American team, and a European team,\u201d the Iranian media quoted Kafashian as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe received approval from the U.S. federation to attend the tournament,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian and U.S. soccer teams have played twice before. Iran defeated the U.S. 2-1 in a game at the 1998 World Cup in France. And Iran and the U.S. played to a 1-1 draw in a match in Pasadena, California two years later.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and the United States have both already qualified for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran will play the United States for only the third time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2688,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050","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=16050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}