{"id":19032,"date":"2014-08-13T04:53:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T11:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19032"},"modified":"2014-08-13T04:53:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T11:53:02","slug":"iran-to-play-japan-in-friendly-iff-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/08\/13\/iran-to-play-japan-in-friendly-iff-chief-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to Play Japan in Friendly, IFF Chief Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>President of Iran Football Federation (IFF) Ali Kaffashian said that the country&#8217;s national football team (Team Melli) will play friendly against Japan national football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian and Japanese football federations signed a cooperation protocol as part of efforts to boost cooperation between the two Asian powers.<\/p>\n<p>The MoU was inked during a special ceremony attended by President of Iran\u2019s Football Federation Ali Kafashian and his Japanese counterpart Daini Kuniya in Tehran on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have signed an agreement to cooperate in football, futsal and beach soccer. We are going to take advantage of their knowledge and experience. The agreement will certainly improve our football,\u201d Kaffashian told the reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to ink an agreement with Japan Football Association since they are one of the Asian powerhouse countries. I hope that the agreement follow up opportunities in the years ahead to further develop,\u201d IFF president said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you know, our U-16 football team recently held a training camp in Japan and we are going to talk about the friendlies between our national teams. The Japanese officials have accepted out suggestion but we have not yet determined dates for the matches,\u201d Kaffashian added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, President of Iran Football Federation (IFF) Ali Kaffashian said that the country&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4613,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19032","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=19032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}