{"id":23662,"date":"2015-12-25T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T17:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23662"},"modified":"2015-12-25T09:31:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T17:31:35","slug":"iran-football-team-needs-more-warm-up-games-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/12\/25\/iran-football-team-needs-more-warm-up-games-coach-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Football Team Needs More Warm-up Games, Coach Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tasnim, TEHRAN \u2013 Iranian national football team&#8217;s assistant coach Markar Aghajanyan said that Team Melli needs more warm-up matches to prepare for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran almost qualified for the third round of the competition which will be held next year in two groups of six teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a difficult task ahead of us in the next stage. I hope that the Iranian football officials organize more international friendly matches,&#8221; Aghajanyan noted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our young players need more international matches to gain experience,\u201d Aghajanyan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe football federation has financial problems and there are not enough facilities for the team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim, TEHRAN \u2013 Iranian national football team&#8217;s assistant coach Markar Aghajanyan said that Team Melli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23098,"featured_media":23663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":1749,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23662","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\/23098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}