{"id":29950,"date":"2017-12-03T11:08:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T19:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29950"},"modified":"2017-12-03T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T23:44:13","slug":"iran-to-participate-in-4-a-side-football-tournament-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/12\/03\/iran-to-participate-in-4-a-side-football-tournament-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to participate in 4 team football tournament in Qatar [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team will reportedly take part in the tournament in Qatar as part of preparation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli have been drawn along with one-time World Cup champion Spain, UEFA titleholder Portugal and Morocco in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>The media reports suggest that Uruguay, Poland, and Qatar will likely take part in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The event has been scheduled to take place in late March in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli, headed by Carlos Queiroz, will be participating in the World Cup for the fifth time but the team have never gotten past the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>Iran became the second team to qualify for the 2018 World Cup as they beat Uzbekistan 2-0 in Tehran in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team will reportedly take part in the tournament&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29950","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":2608,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29950","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=29950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}