{"id":17166,"date":"2014-01-28T11:57:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T19:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17166"},"modified":"2014-01-28T11:57:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T19:57:48","slug":"iran-announce-four-friendly-match-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/01\/28\/iran-announce-four-friendly-match-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran announce four friendly match opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran&#8217;s national team will face Belarus and Montenegro in friendly matches on May 18 and 26, Iranian news agency &#8220;Mehr News&#8221; reported on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The matches probably will take place during an earlier announced training camp in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will then return to Tehran to meet an African team there. South Africa and Angola were named as possible test match opposition for May 31.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Carlos Queiroz&#8217;s men will compete with Trinidad &amp; Tobago on June 8 in Brazil during their final stage of preparations for the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian spokespersons and media outlets are famous for announcing friendly matches prematurely, so if the matches will really take place is at least slightly doubtful.<\/p>\n<p>So far, only an Asian Cup qualifier versus Kuwait on March 3 has been confirmed while a game against Guinea on March 5 was reported as well.<\/p>\n<p>Iran were grouped with Argentina, Nigeria and Bosnia-Herzegovina for the group stage of Brazil 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran&#8217;s national team will face Belarus and Montenegro in friendly matches on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":6076,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17166","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=17166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}