{"id":36768,"date":"2019-06-18T09:08:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T16:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36768"},"modified":"2019-06-18T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T16:08:31","slug":"iran-u23-team-to-play-croatia-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/06\/18\/iran-u23-team-to-play-croatia-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran U23 team to play Croatia friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran U23 football team will reportedly play Croatia in a friendly match.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian team, who are preparing for the 2020 AFC U23 Championship, will meet Croatia in a warm-up match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the sidelines of the 69th FIFA Congress, Mehdi Taj, president of Iran football, and Davor Suker, head of Croatia federation, signed a memorandum of understanding to enhance their bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran U23 football team, headed by Farhad Majidi, will also participate in an Asian tournament ahead of the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2020 AFC U23 Championship will be held in Thailand from Jan. 8 to 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics men&#8217;s football tournament in Japan as the AFC representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, a powerhouse of the Asian football, have not been in the Olympics since the 1976 games in Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran U23 football team will reportedly play Croatia in a friendly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":490,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36768","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=36768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36770,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36768\/revisions\/36770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}