{"id":31517,"date":"2018-04-21T13:53:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T20:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31517"},"modified":"2018-04-21T13:53:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T20:53:39","slug":"iran-confirmed-to-play-uzbekistan-in-friendly-on-may-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/21\/iran-confirmed-to-play-uzbekistan-in-friendly-on-may-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran confirmed to play Uzbekistan in friendly on May 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team will meet Uzbekistan in a friendly match as part of preparation for the 2018 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match is scheduled to be played on May 19 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Iran defeated Uzbekistan twice in the 2018 World Cup qualification in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will also play two friendlies against Turkey and Greece before traveling to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn with Spain, Portugal and Morocco in Group B of the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s team is determined to advance to the next stage for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has never gotten past the group stage in four World Cup appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team will meet Uzbekistan in a friendly match as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31517","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":1297,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31517","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=31517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31519,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31517\/revisions\/31519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}