{"id":25703,"date":"2016-07-20T17:09:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T00:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25703"},"modified":"2016-07-20T17:09:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T00:09:19","slug":"turkish-ff-extends-invitation-to-team-melli-for-friendly-in-stockholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/07\/20\/turkish-ff-extends-invitation-to-team-melli-for-friendly-in-stockholm\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish FF extends invitation to Team Melli for friendly in Stockholm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team will face Turkey in a friendly match in November if Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz accepts the offer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the local media, Turkey football federation has offered the friendly while it will most probably be held in Stockholm, Sweden following the security concerns in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey failed to qualify from Euro 2016 Group D after two defeats against Croatia and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian football team is also going to hold a 12-day training camp in Italy as part of preparation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification in mid-August.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s men will play two friendly matches with Serie B Selection and a team from the Serie B in the training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn in Group A of the World Cup qualification along with Uzbekistan, China, Qatar and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The winner and runner-up of each group (four teams in total) will qualify for the Russia 2018, while the third-placed teams of each group will advance to the Asian play-off.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the Asian play-off will face the side that finishes fourth in the fifth round of the CONCACAF qualifiers in a two-leg inter-confederation playoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team will face Turkey in a friendly match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2835,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703","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=25703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}