{"id":17294,"date":"2014-02-11T23:44:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T07:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17294"},"modified":"2014-02-11T23:45:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T07:45:07","slug":"iran-to-play-four-friendlies-in-south-africa-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/02\/11\/iran-to-play-four-friendlies-in-south-africa-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play four friendlies in South Africa, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mehdi Mohammad Nabi, the general secretary of the Iran Football Federation, said that country&#8217;s football team will play four friendly matches in South Africa\u2019s training camp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The training camp has been scheduled to be held in April in the African country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran will play four friendly matches against the South African football clubs in the camp in its preparation for the 2014 World Cup,\u201d Nabi said.<\/p>\n<p>The Asian heavyweight will also play Guinea on March 5, Belarus on May 18 and Montenegro on May 26*.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s team will also play a friendly on June 8 in Sao Paolo, Brazil against Trinidad and Tobago just before the start of the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn in Group F of the 2014 World Cup along with Nigeria, Argentina and Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will face Nigeria on June 16 in Curitiba\u2019s Arena da Baixada.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note by PFDC: Also friendly matches against Angola on May 31 and versus South Africa, on a yet undefined date in May, have been announced.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Mehdi Mohammad Nabi, the general secretary of the Iran Football Federation,&#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-17294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4914,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294","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=17294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}