{"id":17881,"date":"2014-04-17T04:27:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T11:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17881"},"modified":"2014-04-17T12:18:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T19:18:16","slug":"iran-names-six-host-cities-for-2019-afc-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/04\/17\/iran-names-six-host-cities-for-2019-afc-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Names Six Host Cities for 2019 AFC Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Iranian Football Federation (IFF) finalized the names of six cities to host the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran had earlier proposed Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz and Mashhad for hosting the competitions and now the IFF officials have added Shiraz and Kerman to the list.<\/p>\n<p>A delegation from the Asian Football Confederation plans to visit Iran by the end of April.<\/p>\n<p>The inspection team will take into consideration several factors other than stadium facilities, including training sites, security facilities and transportation infrastructures.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran\u2019s Azadi and Takhti stadiums are ready to host the matches since IFF must introduce seven stadiums to the delegation.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has previously hosted the editions in 1968 and 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, the UAE, Thailand and Kuwait have expressed their interests in hosting the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iranian Football Federation (IFF) finalized the names of six cities to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":8068,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}