{"id":29995,"date":"2017-12-05T11:01:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T19:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29995"},"modified":"2017-12-05T11:01:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T19:01:37","slug":"iran-to-play-algeria-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/12\/05\/iran-to-play-algeria-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play Algeria in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Head coach of Iran national football team Carlos Queiroz says Team Melli will play a friendly match against Algeria ahead of the 2018 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Queiroz, Iran will face Algeria in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on June 2.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will kick of the 2018 World Cup with a match against Morocco in Group B and is going to play Algeria in a friendly match because of the similarities between the two teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The match against Morocco will be like our World Cup final &#8211; we&#8217;ll play like we are playing for our lives,&#8221; said Queiroz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great team with fantastic players and a great coach (Herve Renard),&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Head coach of Iran national football team Carlos Queiroz says Team Melli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29995","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":2785,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29995","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=29995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}