{"id":29715,"date":"2017-11-09T19:09:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T03:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29715"},"modified":"2017-11-09T19:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T03:09:48","slug":"iran-start-world-cup-warm-up-with-win-over-panama-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/11\/09\/iran-start-world-cup-warm-up-with-win-over-panama-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran start World Cup warm-up with win over Panama [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; GRAZ, <strong>Iran beat Panama 2-1 in a friendly in Graz, Austria on Thursday, in a match-up of two teams who have qualified for next year&#8217;s World Cup in Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran took the lead in the 16th minute with a penalty from Ashkan Dejagah after a wild, sliding challenge from Jan Vargas on Karim Ansarifard.<\/p>\n<p>Three minutes later the Iranians doubled their advantage when Saman Ghoddos finished off a swift break down the left, cutting inside and firing home a right-foot shot.<\/p>\n<p>Panama pulled a goal back in the 39th minute, also from the penalty spot, with Gabriel Torres converting after Rouzbeh Chesmi was harshly ruled to have fouled Armando Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will be playing in their fifth World Cup next year while Panama have qualified for the first time. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uSipRKO6nb0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uSipRKO6nb0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; GRAZ, Iran beat Panama 2-1 in a friendly in Graz, Austria on Thursday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4358,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29715","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=29715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}