{"id":16063,"date":"2013-10-06T01:42:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T08:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16063"},"modified":"2013-10-06T01:42:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T08:42:42","slug":"usa-says-rumors-of-iran-match-up-are-premature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/10\/06\/usa-says-rumors-of-iran-match-up-are-premature\/","title":{"rendered":"USA says rumors of Iran match-up are premature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MLSsoccer.com &#8211; CHICAGO, <strong>Fifteen years after their first-ever meeting, news of a potential USA vs. Iran match-up still makes world headlines given the political backdrop that involves the two nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But the rumors that have been swirling in the international press about a pre-World Cup tune-up match next year on US soil are nothing but speculation at this point, according to the US Soccer Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Media outlets including La Gazzetta dello Sport in Italy have picked up on comments by Iranian federation officials about a potential four-team tournament involving Iran and the USA in the lead-up to the 2014 Brazil World Cup next summer. That talk is stil premature, says the USSF.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In preparation for our pre-World Cup matches, we&#8217;ve been actively talking to numerous Federations that have qualified for the World Cup about playing in the U.S. in late May and early June,&#8221; US Soccer spokesman Neil Buethe told MLSsoccer.com on Saturday. &#8220;All of these discussions are preliminary and we do not have any matches set at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The expectation is that several nations that qualify for Brazil 2014 will make plans to stop in the USA for training camps and friendlies before setting foot in South America.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t expect to see any official announcements of specific match-ups until after the World Cup group stage draw is held on December 6 in Bahia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLSsoccer.com &#8211; CHICAGO, Fifteen years after their first-ever meeting, news of a potential USA vs&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2686,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16063","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=16063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}