{"id":34557,"date":"2018-12-19T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34557"},"modified":"2018-12-19T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T16:31:00","slug":"india-turned-down-offer-to-play-iran-in-friendly-stephen-constantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/19\/india-turned-down-offer-to-play-iran-in-friendly-stephen-constantine\/","title":{"rendered":"India turned down offer to play Iran in friendly: Stephen Constantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Express &#8211; NEW DELHI, <strong>India plays Oman on December 27 in what will be their final game ahead of the Asian Cup. They have been drawn in Group A with hosts UAE, Thailand and Bahrain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coach Stephen Constantine revealed that India refused a friendly against Iran that was to be played on December 27, 2018. Constantine said so while explaining how practice matches and friendlies are scheduled. <\/p>\n<p>The Englishman said that he would have liked it if India had played more matches ahead of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup that starts on January 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Iran coach) Carlos Quieroz had rung me up and asked me if we\u2019d be interested in playing on the 27th of December but we already had a friendly lined up against Oman then,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Express &#8211; NEW DELHI, India plays Oman on December 27 in what will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34557","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":1887,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34557","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=34557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34559,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34557\/revisions\/34559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}