{"id":36694,"date":"2019-06-11T12:40:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T19:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36694"},"modified":"2019-06-11T12:43:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T19:43:17","slug":"iran-held-by-s-korea-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/06\/11\/iran-held-by-s-korea-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Held by S. Korea in Friendly [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; SEOUL, <strong>Iran national football team was held to a 1-1 draw by South Korea in a friendly match on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli was under pressure at the early  minutes of the match at the Seoul World Cup Stadium but controlled the speed of play for the majority of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hwang\n Ui-jo found the back of Alireza Beiranvand\u2019s net in the 57th minute \nafter the Iranian defenders made a big mistake behind the penalty area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon after, Iran put its opponent under pressure and Kim Young-gwon scored an own goal in the 62nd minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tottenham star Son Heung-min represented the Korean team in the match but failed to score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, ranked 21st in the latest FIFA rankings, has been one of the top nemeses to South Korea, currently No. 37 in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran  has not suffered a defeat against South Korea since 2011. Team Melli  collected four consecutive 1-0 wins before taking a scoreless draw in a  World Cup qualifying match in August 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c3feqyEj-kg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SEOUL, Iran national football team was held to a 1-1 draw by South&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":36695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2217,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36694","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36698,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36694\/revisions\/36698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}