{"id":20754,"date":"2015-03-11T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20754"},"modified":"2015-03-22T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T03:36:52","slug":"chile-match-can-help-iran-football-javad-nekounam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/03\/11\/chile-match-can-help-iran-football-javad-nekounam\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Chile Match Can Help Iran Football&#8221; &#8211; Javad Nekounam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; PAMPLONA, <strong>Iranian national football team captain Javad Nekounam said the upcoming friendly match against Chile can help Team Melli to prepare for the forthcoming matches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran has been scheduled to face Chile in a friendly in St. P\u00f6lten, Austria on March 26th. However, media reports suggest that the match will likely be called off due to financial restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve heard the friendly may be cancelled but it&#8217;s not definite yet,\u201d Nekounam told Tasnim news agency on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the match can help the Iran football team since Chile has great football players. Our young players can take advantage of this match and the cancellation of the friendly could damage our football,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will also play Sweden in Stockholm\u2019s Friends Arena on FIFA matchday March 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; PAMPLONA, Iranian national football team captain Javad Nekounam said the upcoming friendly match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4063,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20754","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}