{"id":25251,"date":"2016-05-21T11:28:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T18:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25251"},"modified":"2016-05-21T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T18:28:04","slug":"iran-macedonia-friendly-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/05\/21\/iran-macedonia-friendly-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Macedonia Friendly Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Iranian national football team will play friendly against Macedonia on June 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<p>The match will be held in Skopje as part of Iran\u2019s preparations for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn with South Korea, Uzbekistan, Qatar, Syria and China in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli was originally scheduled to meet Norway in a friendly after two federations signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to intensify the development process of the sport in both the countries but the match was called off.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is the highest-ranked squad in Asia and 42nd in the world while Macedonia\u2019s world ranking is 141.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iranian national football team will play friendly against Macedonia on June&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2697,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25251","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}