{"id":36716,"date":"2019-06-11T16:59:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36716"},"modified":"2019-06-12T17:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T00:01:50","slug":"iran-may-play-japan-in-friendly-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/06\/11\/iran-may-play-japan-in-friendly-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran may play Japan in friendly [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran will likely take on Japan in a friendly match in August, Mehdi Taj, head of Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI), said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have reached an initial agreement for the friendly and will play Japan if Team Melli are not drawn in a same group with Japan in the Asian qualification for the 2022 FIFA World Cup,\u201d Taj said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe match will be held in Tehran or Tokyo,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian Ambassador to Japan Morteza Rahmani-Movahed also said he has met the Japan Football Association President Kozo Tashima and Kozo Tashima has announced his country\u2019s reediness to strengthen bilateral relations and cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two teams are preparing for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifications which begins in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran will likely take on Japan in a friendly match in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":745,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36716","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=36716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36718,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36716\/revisions\/36718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}