{"id":30967,"date":"2018-03-03T09:14:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30967"},"modified":"2018-03-03T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T17:14:45","slug":"iran-algeria-friendly-confirmed-at-upc-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/03\/03\/iran-algeria-friendly-confirmed-at-upc-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Algeria friendly confirmed at UPC-Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team will face Algeria on March 27 at the UPC-Arena in Graz, Austria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s men will take on the African powerhouse at 18:00 local time.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly will be held as part of Team Melli\u2019s preparation for the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Iran selected Algeria because the African team have the same style of football as that of Morocco.<\/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 face Algeria on March 27 at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30967","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":2192,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967","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=30967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30968,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967\/revisions\/30968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}