{"id":26814,"date":"2016-12-31T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T18:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26814"},"modified":"2016-12-31T10:12:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T18:12:47","slug":"iran-friendly-a-good-test-for-morocco-mustapha-hadji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/12\/31\/iran-friendly-a-good-test-for-morocco-mustapha-hadji\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Iran friendly a good test for Morocco&#8221;: Mustapha Hadji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Morocco&#8217;s national football team assistant coach Mustapha Hadji says that the friendly match with Iran is a good test for them ahead of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Morocco is supposed to play a warm-up match with Iran at the Al Ain Stadium in Dubai on January 6.<\/p>\n<p>Former Aston Villa and Espanyol midfielder and current assistant coach of Morocco national team believes that the friendly match with Iran will help them know their weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to take advantage of the friendly match against Iran. In my opinion, the warm-up match can give us more knowledge about our players prior to the Africa Cup of Nations,\u201d Hadji said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian national football team has valuable players and we have to be ready for this match. It can be a good test for our players. I believe that to hold a training camp in the UAE will help Morocco prepare well for the Africa Cup of Nations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco has been drawn in the Group C of the tournament alongside defending champion Ivory Coast, DR Congo and Togo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DUBAI, Morocco&#8217;s national football team assistant coach Mustapha Hadji says that the friendly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26814","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":2967,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26814","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=26814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}