{"id":19588,"date":"2014-11-17T10:35:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T18:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19588"},"modified":"2014-11-17T10:35:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T18:35:34","slug":"iran-seeks-third-successive-victory-over-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/11\/17\/iran-seeks-third-successive-victory-over-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran seeks third successive victory over South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian national football team (also known as Team Melli) is resolved to beat its arch-rival South Korea for the third time in a row.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian football team will host South Korea on Tuesday in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has defeated South Korea in its previous two matches in Tehran and Ulsan respectively in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The Korean team is, too, resolved to end its winless streak versus Iran.<\/p>\n<p>This match will be Uli Stielike\u2019s last chance to test players in action before naming the South Korean roster for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will also play South Africa on December 19th in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea is ranked 66th in the world, fourth-highest among Asian countries. Iran is the top Asian nation at 51st.<\/p>\n<p>Iran holds an edge over South Korea in their all-time meetings with 11 wins, nine losses and seven draws.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and South Korea are preparing for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, which will open in January in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is in Group C along with the UAE, Qatar and Bahrain and South Korea has been pitted in Group A along with Australia, Oman and Kuwait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian national football team (also known as Team Melli) is resolved to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":15397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4441,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588","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=19588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}