{"id":28766,"date":"2017-08-11T13:33:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28766"},"modified":"2017-08-11T17:05:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T00:05:42","slug":"iran-confirmed-to-play-friendly-with-russia-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/08\/11\/iran-confirmed-to-play-friendly-with-russia-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran reaches agreement to play friendly with Russia in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has reached an agreement with the Russian Football Union (RFU) to hold a friendly football match on October 10, a source close to the situation told TASS on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran football team, which holds the 24th place in the most recently published FIFA World Rankings list, have already passed the qualifying round for the 2018 FIFA World Cup<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Russian Football Union and the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran have reached an agreement on the friendly football match,&#8221; the source said in an interview with TASS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Federation assumes that the match will be held on October 10 in Russia and everything has been agreed upon,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;We are now waiting for the confirmation from the Russian side regarding the venue for the upcoming match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news about the talks on holding a friendly football match between the Russian and Iranian teams was first voiced in July by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko, who also holds the post of the RFU president.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, ranked 62nd in FIFA World Rankings, played a friendly match against Iran in Abu Dhabi, the UAE in February 2011, losing the game 0-1. The team of the former Soviet Union played against Iran on three occasions winning all of them &#8211; in 1976 (Olympic Games 2-1), in 1978 (1-0) and in 1985 (2-0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has reached an agreement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4908,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28766","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=28766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}