{"id":30343,"date":"2018-01-08T09:43:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30343"},"modified":"2018-01-08T09:43:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:43:01","slug":"esteghlal-tehran-selects-turkmenistan-to-host-al-hilal-of-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/01\/08\/esteghlal-tehran-selects-turkmenistan-to-host-al-hilal-of-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal Tehran selects Turkmenistan to host Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iranian football club Esteghlal has selected Turkmenistan as the neutral venue to host the match against Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia at the 2018 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League Group Stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal is drawn along with Al-Rayyan of Qatar, Al-Hilal and Winner Play-off West 1in Group D.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal has been scheduled to meet Al-Hilal on Feb. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Hilal has already selected Kuwait as a neutral country to host Esteghlal.<\/p>\n<p>The match is scheduled for April 16.<\/p>\n<p>The AFC Executive Committee will decide about the two clubs\u2019 bids.<\/p>\n<p>Teams from Saudi Arabia and Iran will meet in neutral venues for AFC Champions League clashes due to political differences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iranian football club Esteghlal has selected Turkmenistan as the neutral venue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":1061,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30343","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=30343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}