{"id":31176,"date":"2018-03-20T16:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31176"},"modified":"2018-03-20T16:51:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T23:51:28","slug":"team-melli-arrive-in-tunisia-for-world-cup-warm-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/03\/20\/team-melli-arrive-in-tunisia-for-world-cup-warm-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli arrive in Rades for pre-World Cup friendly versus Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun &#8211; RADES, <strong>The game will take place on Friday, March 23 at the Stade Olympique de Rades stadium in Rades, Tunisia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After both making it through qualifying, these two sides begin preparing for this summer&#8217;s World Cup in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Both Iran and Tunisia will be hopeful of making a splash and causing an upset or two at this summer&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Tunisians topped Group A in Africa and were unbeaten, seeing off the DR Congo by one point to make a return to the finals for the first time in 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>Iran was similarly as impressive, topping Group A in the AFC and winning six of their ten games &#8211; whilst conceding just twice.<\/p>\n<p>These two have only faced each other once before, in a 2-2 draw, back in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Former France youth trio Seifeddine Khaoui, Ellyes Skhiri and Mouez Hassen are in line to make their debuts for Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>Experienced Aymen Abdennour has been overlooked due to lack of playing time at Marseille.<\/p>\n<p>Masoud Shojaei has been recalled to the Iranian squad after more than seven months in the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran 2:2 Tunisia [August 15th, 2012]<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=186Juq2m_Wc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=186Juq2m_Wc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun &#8211; RADES, The game will take place on Friday, March 23 at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4028,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176","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=31176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31179,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176\/revisions\/31179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}