{"id":30518,"date":"2018-01-22T16:24:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T00:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30518"},"modified":"2018-01-22T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T00:35:21","slug":"team-mellis-friendly-fixtures-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/01\/22\/team-mellis-friendly-fixtures-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli&#8217;s pre-WC friendly fixtures announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team will play several friendly matches as part of the preparation for the 2018 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will start their friendlies with a match against Libya on March 14 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium. The warm-up match was originally scheduled to be played behind closed doors but the Iranian football federation announced the fans could attend the game.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz&#8217;s team will play one of Tunisia, Senegal and Bosnia &#038; Herzegovina teams on March 22 in Tehran and meet Algeria five days later in the same location.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will face Uzbekistan on May 8 and meet one of Syria, Lebanon and Jordan teams three days later at the Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>On May 20, the Iranian national football team will play Turkey in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli have been scheduled to meet the as-yet-unnamed team on May 28 in Tehran before leaving the country for their European training camp in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will face Greece in Austria on June. 2. Noting that it\u2019s possible one of Albania or Poland teams could replace Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Persians will face a team who have qualified for the 2018 World Cup in Moscow on June 8.<\/p>\n<p>Queiroz\u2019s team have been drawn in Group B along with Spain, Morocco and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will open the campaign with a match against Morocco at Saint Petersburg on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli, meanwhile, face 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; TEHRAN, Iran national football team will play several friendly matches as part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":3717,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30518","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=30518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}