{"id":27351,"date":"2017-02-27T13:36:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T21:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27351"},"modified":"2017-02-27T13:36:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T21:36:19","slug":"iran-to-play-iraq-in-march-friendly-behind-closed-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/27\/iran-to-play-iraq-in-march-friendly-behind-closed-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play Iraq in March friendly behind closed doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team have been schedule to play a friendly game with Iraq during the third week of March at Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium behind the closed doors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iraq Football Federation had previously requested a friendly against Iran but Team Melli\u2019s Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz rejected the offer. Now with less than a month to the game against Qatar, Queiroz has accepted the offer but the match will be played behind the closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>Iran are currently at the top of Group A in the Asia\u2019s 2018 World Cup qualifying with 11 points from five games.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq are in Group B of the Asia\u2019s World Cup qualifying along with Saudi Arabia, Japan, Australia, UAE and Thailand. They will meet Australia on March 3 in Tehran before taking on Saudi Arabia in Jeddah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team have been schedule to play a friendly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":3157,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27351","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=27351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}