{"id":30135,"date":"2017-12-19T09:51:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T17:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30135"},"modified":"2017-12-19T09:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T17:51:42","slug":"australia-wants-friendly-match-with-iran-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/12\/19\/australia-wants-friendly-match-with-iran-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia wants friendly match with Iran: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Australian Ambassador to Iran, Ian Biggs, has offered a friendly match between Iran and Australia as part of the preparation for the 2018 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At a meeting held in Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) headquarters on Monday, the official announced their interest in playing a warm-up match with the best Asian team on behalf of Football Federation Australia (FFA).<\/p>\n<p>FFIRI President Mehdi Taj welcomed Ian Biggs and said it can be a useful friendly but Team Melli coach Carlos Queiroz will make the final decision.<\/p>\n<p>Australia has been drawn in Group C along with France, Denmark and Peru.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play Morocco, Spain and Portugal in Group B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, The Australian Ambassador to Iran, Ian Biggs, has offered a friendly match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,1,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized","category-world-cup"],"views":2133,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30135","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=30135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}