{"id":17500,"date":"2014-03-05T14:16:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T22:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17500"},"modified":"2014-03-06T05:41:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T13:41:54","slug":"bosnias-susic-egypt-is-not-a-test-for-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/03\/05\/bosnias-susic-egypt-is-not-a-test-for-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosnia&#8217;s Susic: Egypt is not a test for Iran [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; SARAJEVO\/INNSBRUCK, <strong>The head coach of the Bosnian football national team, Safet Susic stressed that the friendly against Egypt is not meant to be a test for the upcoming World Cup match against Iran in June.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with a Bosnian sports website, Susic mentioned that the decision to play the African powerhouse Egypt has not the aim to simulate a possible performance of the Iranian football national team.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore the former Yugoslavian national team player and current successor of former Iran coach Miroslav Blazevic mentioned that he is not a supporter of so called friendlies with teams which have a similar playing style as every team has its own way to play football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We only searched for a strong opponent and Egypt has always been one of the best African teams&#8221;, Susic said.<\/p>\n<p>Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina suffered a rather unexpected 0-2 defeat against the Egyptian national team in Innsbruck\/Austria on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina was also held by Romania to a 0-0 draw on Wednesday evening while Mexico and Nigeria played each other in an entertaining 0-0 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina, Argentina, Nigeria and Iran were drawn in Group F. \u00a0At the beginning Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina will face Argentina in Rio de Janeiro on June 15th whereas Iran will play Nigeria in Curitiba on June 16th.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yz0D3xXnV8g\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yz0D3xXnV8g<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5c1cFmqjyeI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5c1cFmqjyeI<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lTxxfH69ASk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lTxxfH69ASk<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; SARAJEVO\/INNSBRUCK, The head coach of the Bosnian football national team, Safet Susic stressed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":17501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":6866,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17500","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=17500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}