{"id":19978,"date":"2015-01-03T11:09:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T19:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19978"},"modified":"2015-01-03T11:09:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T19:09:21","slug":"iran-to-play-iraq-in-friendly-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/03\/iran-to-play-iraq-in-friendly-in-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play Iraq in friendly in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SYDNEY, <strong>The Iranian national football team (also known as Team Melli) will meet Iraq in a friendly match on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match will be Iran\u2019s last friendly prior to the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, where Team Melli has been drawn in Group C along with Bahrain, the UAE and Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and Iraq have played 23 times each other, with Iran winning 13 times, Iran taking four victories and six matches ending in a draw.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and Iraq will likely face together in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy we take on Iraq in a friendly. It can be a good opportunity for us to prepare more for the Asian Cup,\u201d Iran coach Carlos Queiroz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SYDNEY, The Iranian national football team (also known as Team Melli) will meet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":19457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3670,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19978","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=19978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}