{"id":26807,"date":"2016-12-29T12:33:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T20:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26807"},"modified":"2016-12-29T12:33:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T20:33:06","slug":"iraq-friendly-request-rejected-by-ffiri-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/12\/29\/iraq-friendly-request-rejected-by-ffiri-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq friendly request rejected by FFIRI: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has rejected an offer from its Iraqi counterpart to play a friendly match, according to an Emirati newspaper.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iraq had asked Iran to arrange a friendly match in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium in Tehran on March 18 but the FFIRI has rejected that, eremnews.com reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Emirati newspaper wrote that the Iranian officials rejected the match just because it is not in on their plans.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq national team Radhi Shenaishil is preparing his team for two crucial matches against Australia and Saudi Arabia scheduled for March 23 and 28 respectively in Group B of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s men, meanwhile, will play Qatar and China on March 23 and 28 respectively in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>Iran national football team was supposed to play a warm-up match with Morocco at the Al Ain Stadium in Dubai on January 6 but it seems the match will be called off because Emirati officials will only let the game to be held behind closed doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, The Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has rejected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26807","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":3479,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26807","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=26807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}