{"id":30952,"date":"2018-02-28T11:40:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30952"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:40:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:40:37","slug":"iran-libya-friendly-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/02\/28\/iran-libya-friendly-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Libya friendly cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>A friendly match between Iran national football team and Libya has been called off.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match was scheduled for March 15 in Vienna as part of the preparation for the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Libyan Football Federation president Jamal Al-Jaafari has said they will not play Team Melli because the foreign-based players have not been allowed to join Libya national team since the match will not be played in FIFA Matchday.<\/p>\n<p>Iran had selected Libya because the African team has the same style of football as that of Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli has been drawn along with one-time World Cup champion Spain, UEFA titleholder 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, A friendly match between Iran national football team and Libya has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3454,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30952","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=30952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30953,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30952\/revisions\/30953"}],"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=30952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}