{"id":30454,"date":"2018-01-17T11:59:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T19:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30454"},"modified":"2018-01-22T15:21:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T23:21:59","slug":"iran-may-play-a-pre-world-cup-friendly-with-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/01\/17\/iran-may-play-a-pre-world-cup-friendly-with-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran may play a pre-World Cup friendly with Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AMSTERDAM, <strong>Iran national football team may be surprised by a friendly match with Azzurri.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Taj and Mohammad Reza Saket, President and Secretary General of Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) participated in the fifth FIFA Executive Football Summit in 2017\/2018 series in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian officials negotiated with their Italian counterparts to extend cooperation with the European federation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s said the Iranian federation has shown interest in holding a training camp in Italy ahead of the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian media reports suggest that Team Melli may play a warm up match with Italy in the camp.<\/p>\n<p>Italy failed to qualify for first World Cup in 60 years after play-off defeat to Sweden in November.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli have been drawn along with one-time World Cup champions Spain, UEFA titleholders Portugal and Morocco in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s men will kick off the competition with a match against Morocco on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, meanwhile, faces Spain in Kazan on 20 June before meeting Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s Portugal in Saransk five days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AMSTERDAM, Iran national football team may be surprised by a friendly match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2903,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30454","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=30454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}