{"id":30445,"date":"2018-01-17T10:51:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T18:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30445"},"modified":"2018-01-17T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T18:51:54","slug":"iran-plans-to-take-on-azerbaijan-in-futsal-friendly-says-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/01\/17\/iran-plans-to-take-on-azerbaijan-in-futsal-friendly-says-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran plans to take on Azerbaijan in futsal friendly, says coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The head coach of the Iranian men&#8217;s national futsal team Mohammad Nazemosharia said that Iran is planning to play two friendly fixtures against the Azerbaijan national futsal team, Press TV reported on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cancellation of the two scheduled demonstration matches against the Slovenian squad disrupted our plans. We are trying to organize two friendlies against Azerbaijan in Baku late in January,&#8221; Nazemosharia was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>All members of the Iranian men&#8217;s national futsal team went to the Slovenian Embassy in Tehran on Monday morning, and were surprised to find out that no visa had been issued for them, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This issue has dampened the team&#8217;s spirits ahead of the 2018 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Futsal Championship,&#8221; the Iranian head coach said.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian men&#8217;s national futsal team is gearing up for the 2018 AFC Futsal Championship, which will take place in Chinese Taipei between February 1 and 11, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn with China, Iraq and Myanmar in Group C of the upcoming continental sports event.<\/p>\n<p>The host nation, Bahrain, Malaysia and Vietnam form Group A in the preliminary round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is drawn in Group B, and is pitted against South Korea, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>Group D consists of Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon and Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; TEHRAN, The head coach of the Iranian men&#8217;s national futsal team Mohammad Nazemosharia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,88,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":812,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30445","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=30445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}