{"id":16657,"date":"2013-12-16T12:11:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T20:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16657"},"modified":"2013-12-16T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T20:15:13","slug":"iran-may-play-friendly-with-guinea-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/12\/16\/iran-may-play-friendly-with-guinea-coach-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran may play friendly with Guinea, coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran is going to play friendly against Guinea, according to the Iranian football coach Carlos Queiroz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran has been grouped along with Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Nigeria in Group F of the 2014 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve received several offers for friendly matches but playing friendly against Guinea is my top priority since they have European-based players. The match will be held on March 5.<\/p>\n<p>To play Congo is also in our program,\u201d Querioz said in the press conference in Tehran on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of the preparation for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, we are also going to face three European teams as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be ready for the World Cup and play with enthusiasm and tenacity,\u201d the Portuguese added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease don\u2019t compare us to Spain or Germany. Everybody compares us to the teams should be nominated for Comedian of the 21st Century award.<\/p>\n<p>It took 80 years to win the titles for Spain,\u201d former Real Madrid coach added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a good opportunity for Iran football to play three good teams at the World Cup with three different styles. It\u2019s an impossible mission for us to book a berth in the next stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course I believe that there is no easy group in the competition,\u201d Carlos Queiroz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran is going to play friendly against Guinea, according to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":15024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2835,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16657","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\/25049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}