{"id":21137,"date":"2015-04-14T02:59:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T09:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21137"},"modified":"2015-04-14T12:52:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T19:52:55","slug":"world-cup-2018-qualifier-iran-starts-with-easy-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/04\/14\/world-cup-2018-qualifier-iran-starts-with-easy-task\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2018 qualifier: Iran starts with easy task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN\/KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The World Cup 2018 and Asian Cup 2019 draw granted an allegedly easy task for Team Melli this afternoon in Kuala Lumpur.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran was grouped\u00a0as the top-ranked team in accordance with the latest Fifa ranking alongside Oman, India, Turkmenistan and Guam in group D of the Preliminary Qualifier &#8211; Round Two of the World Cup 2018 and the Asian Cup 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian football national team starts its campaign away in Ashgabat against Turkmenistan on the 16th of June while all other opponents of group D start earlier on the 11th of June.<\/p>\n<h6>Below comes the draw of all groups: (Click on the image to enlarge)<\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11130086_865960053451734_4453753864842737025_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-21138 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11130086_865960053451734_4453753864842737025_n-350x197.png\" alt=\"AFC World Cup 2018 draw\" width=\"613\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11130086_865960053451734_4453753864842737025_n-350x197.png 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11130086_865960053451734_4453753864842737025_n-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11130086_865960053451734_4453753864842737025_n-700x394.png 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/11130086_865960053451734_4453753864842737025_n.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN\/KUALA LUMPUR, The World Cup 2018 and Asian Cup 2019 draw granted an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":21139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5522,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21137","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}