{"id":31961,"date":"2018-05-21T14:33:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31961"},"modified":"2018-05-21T14:33:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T21:33:22","slug":"iran-players-get-russia-2018-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/05\/21\/iran-players-get-russia-2018-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran players get Russia 2018 boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran President Hassan Rouhani welcomed the national football team at the presidential palace on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rouhani was handed replicas of the Iran national football team No 12 jerseys and he wished the team well ahead of their 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia preparations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to express my happiness to participate at Team Melli\u2019s farewell ceremony. I want to thank you because you made Iranian people happy by booking a place in the 2018 World Cup,\u201d Rouhani said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will have to do your best in the competition and I believe that you can shine at the World Cup, However Team Melli have been drawn in a difficult group,\u201d the President added.<\/p>\n<p>Also present at the ceremony were Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Masoud Soltanifar, Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran President Mehdi Taj, as well as players and coaching staff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Islamic Republic of Iran President Hassan Rouhani welcomed the national football team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,1,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized","category-world-cup"],"views":729,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31961","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=31961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31963,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31961\/revisions\/31963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}