{"id":34218,"date":"2018-11-19T10:15:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T18:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34218"},"modified":"2018-11-19T10:15:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T18:15:19","slug":"venezuela-seeks-positive-end-to-the-year-with-iran-friendly-in-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/11\/19\/venezuela-seeks-positive-end-to-the-year-with-iran-friendly-in-doha\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela seeks positive end to the year with Iran friendly in Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eurosport &#8211; DOHA, <strong>The Venezuelan soccer team will measure itself against Iran to close out this year&#8217;s preparatory tour for the Copa de Am\u00e9rica 2019 at the Al Ahli Stadium in Doha, Qatar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La Vinotinto comes into the friendly after a draw against Japan and wins against Panama and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>With the draw against the Nipponese, who have not seen defeat since the end of July, Venezuela left a good image with a scheme that allowed improvements in handling the ball with short passes and break on the flanks.<\/p>\n<p>The squad led by Rafael Dudamel will again face Iran almost 12 months after they did in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, on November 13, 2017, in a close commitment that the Iranians won by the minimum difference.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Iran, under the orders of Portuguese Carlos Queiroz approaches the rematch after defeating Bolivia 2-1, who are also led under the command of Venezuelan C\u00e9sar Far\u00edas. Team Melli also won their recent friendly matches against Uzbekistan and Trinidad &#038; Tobago, both 1-0 victories, in preparation for the AFC Asian Cup 2019 in Dubai, UAE.<\/p>\n<p>With this commitment the Venezuelan team will complete a total of six friendlies in 2018 in preparation for the Copa Am\u00e9rica Brazil 2019 and the start of the South American qualifier for Qatar 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurosport &#8211; DOHA, The Venezuelan soccer team will measure itself against Iran to close out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34218","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-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1214,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34218","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=34218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34220,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34218\/revisions\/34220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}