{"id":32540,"date":"2018-06-27T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T02:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32540"},"modified":"2018-06-27T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T02:18:08","slug":"team-melli-returns-home-from-russia-2018-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/27\/team-melli-returns-home-from-russia-2018-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli returns home from Russia 2018 [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team returned home early Wednesday amid warm reception by the Iranian fans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An estimated 5,000 fans showed up at Tehran\u2019s Imam Khomeini Airport to greet the team as they returned home from the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Iran national football team failed to book a place in the 2018 World Cup Round of 16 but showed a brilliant performance in the completion.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli started the campaign with a 1-0 win over Morocco in St Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz\u2019s men lost to Spain 1-0 in Kazan despite an outstanding performance.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli drew 1-1 with Portugal in their last group match in Saransk and finished in third place in Group B with four points, one point behind Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian national football team, who arrived in Russia nine days before the start of the competition, returned home two days after being knocked out of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x6mxde3\">https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x6mxde3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"iran team melli after world cup back in Iran at midnight\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BSR0N6LOwCQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team returned home early Wednesday amid warm reception&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32540","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":1274,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32540","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=32540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32542,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32540\/revisions\/32542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}