{"id":25344,"date":"2016-06-01T11:46:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T18:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25344"},"modified":"2016-06-01T11:46:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T18:46:02","slug":"iraq-to-play-in-irans-mashhad-in-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/06\/01\/iraq-to-play-in-irans-mashhad-in-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq to play in Iran&#8217;s Mashhad in World Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MASHAD, <strong>The Iraq Football Association confirmed that their matches in the 2016 World Cup qualification will be held in Mashhad, northeast of Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi football team has been drawn in Group B along with Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>According to the association, Mashhad has been chosen the host their matches since a large minority of Iraqis live in the city and can support their national team in the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq national football team will host Thailand on October 11 in Mashhad.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia football team will not play Iraq on Iranian soil and their matches will be held in on neutral soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MASHAD, The Iraq Football Association confirmed that their matches in the 2016 World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":24882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":2274,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25344","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=25344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}