{"id":19503,"date":"2014-11-01T20:37:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T03:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19503"},"modified":"2014-11-01T20:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T03:37:06","slug":"iran-kenya-friendly-called-off-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/11\/01\/iran-kenya-friendly-called-off-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-Kenya Friendly Called Off, Official Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>An international friendly match between Iran and Kenya football teams has been called off, president of the Iranian Football Federation(IFF) Ali Kaffashian said on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match has been cancelled since the Kenya Football Federations has demanded $50,000 in cash and travel as well as accommodation costs associated with the trip to Tehran, Kaffashian said.<\/p>\n<p>IFF is going to find an African team as a replacement for Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, which is handled by former Real Madrid and Portugal head coach Carlos Quieroz, is preparing itself for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli has been pitted against the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar and Bahrain in Group C of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The competition will be held in Australia from January 9 to 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, An international friendly match between Iran and Kenya football teams has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3351,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503","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=19503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}