{"id":16559,"date":"2013-12-03T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T19:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16559"},"modified":"2013-12-04T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T19:17:57","slug":"world-cup-2014-iran-in-pot-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/12\/03\/world-cup-2014-iran-in-pot-3\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2014: Iran in Pot 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Iran, making it\u2019s their fourth World Cup appearance, has been slotted in pot 3 alongside other AFC and the CONCACAF teams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A team from each pot will be drawn to form a group. There will be eight groups in total and the draw to determine the groups will be made on Friday, December 6.<\/p>\n<p>Due to pot 2 only consisting of seven teams and pot 4 of nine, a team from the latter pot will be drawn to fill in for the missing pot 2 team.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore a group of death with two European powerhouses from pot 4 beside the top see is possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot 1<\/strong>: Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot 2<\/strong>: Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot 3<\/strong>: Australia, <strong>Iran<\/strong>, Japan, Korea Republic, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, USA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot 4<\/strong>: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, England, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; ZURICH, Iran, making it\u2019s their fourth World Cup appearance, has been slotted in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30211,"featured_media":15412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4940,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559","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\/30211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}