{"id":36862,"date":"2019-06-26T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T03:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36862"},"modified":"2019-06-26T20:27:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T03:27:52","slug":"team-melli-to-play-u23-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/06\/26\/team-melli-to-play-u23-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli to play U23 in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team will play Iran U23 team in a friendly match in late July.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match has been scheduled for July 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran U23 football team, headed by Farhad Majidi, prepare for the 2020 AFC U23 Championship which 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\n\n\n<p>Iran national football team are also preparing for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers that begin in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marc Wilmots\u2019s Iran are top AFC team in the FIFA rankings at No. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team will play Iran U23 team in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1766,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36862","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=36862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36864,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36862\/revisions\/36864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}