{"id":29006,"date":"2017-09-06T16:29:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T23:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29006"},"modified":"2017-09-06T16:29:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T23:29:56","slug":"iran-to-play-togo-in-friendly-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/09\/06\/iran-to-play-togo-in-friendly-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play Togo in friendly match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team will face African nation Togo in a friendly match in late September.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match has been scheduled for Sept. 29 in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will also play Russia six days later in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian football team, which holds the 24th spot in the most recently published FIFA World Rankings list, have already passed the qualifying round for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) Mehdi Taj has confirmed the two friendly matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam Melli will play Togo and Russia in Russia. We\u2019ve chosen Togo since we will likely face an African team in the 2018 World Cup group stage,\u201d Taj said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to arrange eight warm-up matches ahead of the World Cup. Iran will probably play Sweden in a friendly match,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team will face African nation Togo in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29006","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"],"views":5983,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006","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=29006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}