{"id":31140,"date":"2018-03-16T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T20:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31140"},"modified":"2018-03-16T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T20:51:08","slug":"sierra-leone-in-tehran-for-saturday-friendly-vs-team-melli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/03\/16\/sierra-leone-in-tehran-for-saturday-friendly-vs-team-melli\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone in Tehran for Saturday friendly vs. Team Melli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AllAfrica.com &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Sierra Leone national team, Leone Stars, are currently in Tehran, Iran, ahead of their friendly international clash against Iran on March 17 at 3:30 p.m. local time (1200 GMT) at Azadi Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s clash will be Team Melli first 2018 World Cup warm-up friendly encounter and the first time they would be facing the West Africa side in an international match.<\/p>\n<p>Coach John Keister will be expecting to have the service of four professional players; Kwame Quee, Sorie Barrie, Thomas Sebora Koroma and Abdul Sesay plus 17 home-based.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Keister&#8217;s counterpart, Carlos Queiroz, has already named his 22-man Iran squad for the friendly match against Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran squad includes; Goalkeepers: Alireza Beiranvand, Hamed Lak, Hossein Hosseini, Rashid Mazaheri<\/p>\n<p>Defenders: Vouria Ghafouri, Ramin Rezaeian, Jalal Hosseini, Mohammad Ansari, Saeid Aghaei, Rouzbeh Cheshmi, Pejman Montazeri, Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh<\/p>\n<p>Midfielders: Omid Nourafkan, Ali Karimi, Kamal Kamyabinia, Ahmad Abdollahzadeh, Omid Ebrahimi<\/p>\n<p>Strikers: Vahid Amiri, Ali Gholizadeh, Kaveh Rezaei, Mehdi Torabi, Ali Alipour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AllAfrica.com &#8211; TEHRAN, Sierra Leone national team, Leone Stars, are currently in Tehran, Iran, ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2345,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31140","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=31140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31142,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31140\/revisions\/31142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}