{"id":19980,"date":"2015-01-03T11:11:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T19:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19980"},"modified":"2015-01-03T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T19:11:03","slug":"iran-iraq-match-a-major-boost-to-local-community-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/03\/iran-iraq-match-a-major-boost-to-local-community-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Iraq match a major boost to local community, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SYDNEY, <strong>Minister for Sport and Recreation Stuart Ayres said that the friendly match between Iran and Iraq is a major boost to the local community.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran has been scheduled to meet Iraq on Sunday at the WIN Stadium in Illawarra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are encouraging the large contingent of Iraqi and Iranian expatriates living in Australia to come and support their national team, but also the local community,\u201d Stuart Ayres said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe match is a major boost to the local community. This is great news for football fans right across the Illawarra, and further demonstrates the capability of WIN Stadium to host major international events,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran national football team will prepare for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup by facing Iraq who also qualified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SYDNEY, Minister for Sport and Recreation Stuart Ayres said that the friendly match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":18650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3974,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19980","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=19980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}