{"id":17939,"date":"2014-04-22T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T16:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17939"},"modified":"2014-04-22T10:35:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T17:35:28","slug":"iran-beats-moroka-swallows-5-0-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/04\/22\/iran-beats-moroka-swallows-5-0-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran beats Moroka Swallows 5-0 in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; JOHANNESBURG, <strong>The Iranian national football team crushed the South African premiership club Moroka Swallows 5-0 in a friendly match in Johannesburg, South Africa on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Payam Sadeghian, Reza Norouzi, Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari and Karim Ansarifard (two goals) scored for the Iranian football team in this match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur main goal was not to get a good result in this friendly match; we wanted to identify the weak and strong points of the team. We will continue the fitness training to get players to a good level\u201d, Iran head coach Carlos Queiroz said after the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf everyone supports us I believe Iran will have a good performance in 2014 World Cup in Brazil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s men will also play Mozambique in their training camp in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn in Group F of the 2014 World Cup along with Argentina, Nigeria, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p>The Asian heavyweight will leave Iran on May 12 to hold a training camp in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play Belarus, Montenegro and Angola in the camp.<\/p>\n<p>The Carlos Queiroz\u2019s men will face Trinidad and Tobago in its final preparation for the 2014 World Cup. The match will be held in Sao Paolo, Brazil on June 8.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup will begin in Sao Paulo on June 12 and will end in Rio&#8217;s famous Maracana stadium on July 13.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play Nigeria in Curitiba on June 16 in its first group match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; JOHANNESBURG, The Iranian national football team crushed the South African premiership club&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5868,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939","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=17939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}