{"id":16681,"date":"2013-12-19T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16681"},"modified":"2013-12-19T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T21:58:08","slug":"iran-to-play-guinea-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/12\/19\/iran-to-play-guinea-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play Guinea in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran will play their first friendly match of 2014 versus Guinea in Tehran on March 5.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Asian Cup qualifier versus Kuwait, which initially had been scheduled for this FIFA matchday, was moved to March 2 in order to allow Iran pursuing the World Cup preparations.<\/p>\n<p>Guinea shall act as sparring partner in order to prepare Team Melli for their World Cup opener versus Nigeria on June 16.<\/p>\n<p>The West Africans, coached by Frenchman Michel Dussuyer, currently stand in 61st position of the FIFA ranking &#8211; 28 spots behind Iran &#8211; and are 12th in the African ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Guinea&#8217;s roster mainly consists of European based players among which players from the French league are the majority.<\/p>\n<p>Most famous are AC Milan midfielder Kevin Constant, Rayo Vallecano striker Alhassane Bangoura and Vfb Stuttgart forward Ibrahima Traore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran will play their first friendly match of 2014 versus Guinea in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":16385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4289,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16681","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=16681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}