{"id":27535,"date":"2017-03-19T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27535"},"modified":"2017-03-19T09:35:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T16:35:25","slug":"iran-loses-to-iraq-in-friendly-1-0-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/19\/iran-loses-to-iraq-in-friendly-1-0-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran loses to Iraq in friendly 0:1 [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian national football team was defeated against Iraq in a friendly match on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match held behind the closed doors in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium, Team Melli suffered a 1-0 defeat to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi striker found the back of the net from the penalty spot in 76th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli is preparing for the match against Qatar scheduled for March 23 in Doha in upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s men will host China five days later in Tehran&#8217;s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p> Team Melli has been drawn along with South Korea, Uzbekistan, China, Qatar and Syria in Group A of the third round of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Iran leads the group with 11 points, followed by South Korea with 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Asian powerhouse Japan has been pitted against Australia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Thailand in Group B.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=deX3hRupRig\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=deX3hRupRig<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian national football team was defeated against Iraq in a friendly match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4912,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27535","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=27535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}