{"id":26579,"date":"2016-11-26T10:44:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T18:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26579"},"modified":"2016-11-26T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T18:44:41","slug":"netherlands-likely-to-play-friendly-with-iran-michael-van-praag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/11\/26\/netherlands-likely-to-play-friendly-with-iran-michael-van-praag\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands likely to play friendly with Iran: Michael van Praag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>President of Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) Michael van Praag says that they are interested in arranging a football friendly with the Iranian national team (Team Melli) but there are no more free dates on their calendar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran Football Federation signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with KNVB on Thursday in Tehran to strengthen the mutual relationship and to cooperate for further development of the sport in the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to play friendly matches with Iranian football teams in all levels. However, there are no more free dates on our calendar until next two years to arrange a friendly between our senior football team and the Iranian national team. The Netherlands will play Iran in the first opportunity,\u201d van Praag told Tasnim news agency in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud of signing the MoU with Iran Football Federation and I can definitely say there are no regrets at all. To sign the memorandum with Iranian federation is a very good thing that happened,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MoU, Iran will help the Netherlands\u2019 grassroots youth football, futsal, beach soccer and women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n<p>KNVB will also help the Iranian federation to arrange the international friendlies.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian federation has also signed MoUs with Italy, Belarus, Japan, the UAE and Norway federations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, President of Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) Michael van Praag says that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3024,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26579","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=26579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}