{"id":33634,"date":"2018-10-05T08:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33634"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:17:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:17:20","slug":"ttfa-announces-iran-friendly-for-november-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/10\/05\/ttfa-announces-iran-friendly-for-november-15\/","title":{"rendered":"TTFA announces Iran friendly for November 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NewsDay.co.tt &#8211; PORT OF SPAIN, <strong>The National men\u2019s football team will be back on the road next month, as they are scheduled to oppose Iran in a friendly international on November 15.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This announcement was made at a media briefing at the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Cunningham, the team\u2019s media officer, admitted that the cash-strapped TT Football Association (TTFA) were not able to host a team of Iran\u2019s calibre \u2013 they are currently 33rd in the latest FIFA rankings and had a creditable showing at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s (basically) teams that can afford to host us,\u201d said Cunningham.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams met once before, in a friendly match in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 8, 2014, with Iran prevailing 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>National men\u2019s team coach Dennis Lawrence commented, \u201c(This is) huge for us. If you look at the way that they performed in the World Cup, I thought they were very outstanding. They\u2019re ranked 33 in the world, they\u2019re not there by accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very good, competitive test for us,\u201d added the former TT central defender. \u201cWe\u2019re stepping up the ladder. When you look at the jump from UAE (to) Thailand and (now) Iran, I think it\u2019s the best test for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re preparing for the Asia Cup and we\u2019re preparing for the Gold Cup. It\u2019s the right type of challenge for us at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsDay.co.tt &#8211; PORT OF SPAIN, The National men\u2019s football team will be back on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1103,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33634","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=33634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33636,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33634\/revisions\/33636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}