{"id":29914,"date":"2017-12-01T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T18:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29914"},"modified":"2017-12-01T22:54:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T06:54:39","slug":"iran-handed-tough-group-in-2018-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/12\/01\/iran-handed-tough-group-in-2018-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran handed tough group in 2018 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MOSCOW, <strong>Iran national football team, known as Team Melli, have been drawn in Group B of the 2018 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s team will play powerhouse Spain, Portugal and Morocco in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play Morocco in their opening match on June 15 at the Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli face Spain on June 20 and meet Portugal five days later.<\/p>\n<p>Group A: Russia, Uruguay, Egypt, Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group B: Portugal, Spain, Iran, Morocco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group C: France, Peru, Denmark, Australia<\/p>\n<p>Group D: Argentina, Croatia, Iceland, Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>Group E: Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Serbia<\/p>\n<p>Group F: Germany, Mexico, Sweden, South Korea<\/p>\n<p>Group G: Belgium, England, Tunisia, Panama<\/p>\n<p>Group H: Poland, Colombia, Senegal, Japan<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 will run from June 14 to July 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MOSCOW, Iran national football team, known as Team Melli, have been drawn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2789,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29914","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=29914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}