{"id":17468,"date":"2014-03-03T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T18:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17468"},"modified":"2014-03-03T10:50:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T18:50:28","slug":"belarus-to-face-iran-football-friendly-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/03\/03\/belarus-to-face-iran-football-friendly-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus to face Iran in football friendly in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BelTA &#8211; MINSK,\u00a0<strong>The association Belarusian Football Federation has reached an agreement to hold a friendly match against the national team of Iran in Austria on 18 May, BelTA has learnt.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">This will be the third time Belarus and Iran have met. On 20 August 2003 Belarus, under head coach Anatoly Baidachnyi, encountered Iran in Minsk to win 2:1, Maksim Romashchenko scoring from 11 meters on 9 minutes and Sergei Shtanyuk adding a second in the 40th minute. The second match in Tehran on 7 February 2007 ended in a draw 2-2. Back then, Vyacheslav Hleb scored twice within six minutes, on 53 and 59 minutes. The Belarusian team were then coached by Yuri Puntus.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Belarus are 82nd in the February edition of the FIFA ranking, while Iranians are 38th. Belarus will encounter Bulgaria in another friendly match in Sofia on 5 March. Bulgaria are currently 72nd in the FIFA ranking.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BelTA &#8211; MINSK,\u00a0The association Belarusian Football Federation has reached an agreement to hold a friendly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5304,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}