{"id":29038,"date":"2017-09-10T11:18:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T18:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29038"},"modified":"2017-09-10T11:18:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T18:18:01","slug":"russia-vs-iran-to-be-held-at-kazan-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/09\/10\/russia-vs-iran-to-be-held-at-kazan-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia vs. Iran to be held at Kazan Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KAZAN, <strong>The Russian national football team will host Iran at Kazan Arena in a friendly match in October.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The game has been scheduled for October 10 at the 45,000-seater Kazan Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Iran football team, which holds the 24th place in the FIFA World Rankings list, has qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will also play a friendly with Togo six days before the match.<\/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, headed by Stanislav Cherchesov, 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.<\/p>\n<p>The team of the former Soviet Union played against Iran on three occasions winning all of them \u2013 in 1976 (Olympic Games 2-1), in 1978 (1-0) and in 1985 (2-0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KAZAN, The Russian national football team will host Iran at Kazan Arena in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4599,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29038","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=29038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}