{"id":27430,"date":"2017-03-07T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27430"},"modified":"2017-03-07T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T00:49:43","slug":"iran-womens-national-team-plays-out-scoreless-draw-in-ukraine-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/07\/iran-womens-national-team-plays-out-scoreless-draw-in-ukraine-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Women&#8217;s National Team plays out scoreless draw in Ukraine friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Iranian and Ukrainian women&#8217;s national football teams have played out a goalless draw in an international friendly played in the Iranian capital city of Tehran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iranian and Ukrainian soccer players could threaten each other\u2019s goalposts on a number of occasions during the first half of the fixture at Ararat Stadium on Monday, but could not direct their shots on target, and were off having tacked no goal.<\/p>\n<p>After the break, both teams made all attempts to get the elusive goal, but were unable to break the deadlock.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran women&#8217;s national football team, domestically known by the nickname Team Melli Zanan, is scheduled to face the Ukrainian women&#8217;s outfit once more on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Female Iranian footballers are preparing for the 2018 AFC Women&#8217;s Asian Cup qualification tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is pitted against Myanmar, Singapore, Syria and Vietnam in Group D of the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Group A comprises Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, the Philippines, Tajikistan and the United Arab Emirates. Hong Kong, India, North Korea, South Korea and Uzbekistan form Group B.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Taipei, Guam, Lebanon, Palestine and Thailand are drawn in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran women&#8217;s national football team will take on Myanmar in the Group D curtain-raiser at Vietnam YFT Center in the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi at 3 p.m. local time (0800 GMT) on April 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iranian and Ukrainian women&#8217;s national football teams have played out a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-womens"],"views":2500,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27430","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=27430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}