{"id":29273,"date":"2017-10-02T14:55:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29273"},"modified":"2017-10-02T14:55:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:55:58","slug":"russia-ready-to-face-strong-iran-stanislav-cherchesov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/10\/02\/russia-ready-to-face-strong-iran-stanislav-cherchesov\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Russia ready to face strong Iran&#8221;: Stanislav Cherchesov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times- MOSCOW, <strong>Russia coach Stanislav Cherchesov says that they are ready to play Asia\u2019s best football team Iran in a friendly.<\/strong><br \/>\nCherchesov replaced Leonid Slutski after the Euros.<\/p>\n<p>No. 64 Russia will host Team Melli (25th) in Kazan Arena in Kazan on October 10th. The Russian will face South Korea three days earlier in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve previously talked about a friendly between Russia and Iran with Carlos Queiroz and now it\u2019s going to happen,\u201d Cherchesov said in an interview with IRNA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen Iran\u2019s match with South Korea and I have to say they take advantage of good players such as (Sardar) Azmoun, (Milad) Mohammadi and (Saeid) Ezatolahi. The friendly match will be an important warm-up match and I am sure my friend Queiroz thinks so. We are going to play a beautiful football with strong Iran and I am sure the fans will fill the seats,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have new players with new ideas in our football. Just 30 percent of the former players are in the new team. Russia football team are more interesting at the moment,\u201d Cherchesov stated.<\/p>\n<p>Russia 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- MOSCOW, Russia coach Stanislav Cherchesov says that they are ready to play Asia\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":3556,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29273","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=29273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}