{"id":37903,"date":"2019-11-06T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T01:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37903"},"modified":"2019-11-06T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T01:40:42","slug":"iraq-fa-proposes-jordan-as-neutral-venue-for-iran-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/11\/06\/iraq-fa-proposes-jordan-as-neutral-venue-for-iran-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq FA proposes Jordan as neutral venue for Iran match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BAGHDAD, <strong>Iraq has proposed Jordan to host its 2022 World Cup and 2023 Asia Cup qualifiers, after FIFA requested an alternative venue because of ongoing protests, officials said Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq had been due to play the two games in Basra&nbsp;\u2014 against Iran on Nov. 14 and Bahrain on&nbsp;Nov. 19&nbsp;\u2014 but the southern port city has been caught up in the anti-government demonstrations that have swept Baghdad and the south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Jordan was chosen to host the matches against Bahrain and Iran,&#8221; Abdelkhaleq Masud, the head of Iraq&#8217;s football federation, told&nbsp;<em>AFP<\/em>&nbsp;on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal must now be approved by FIFA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran are third in Group C with six points. Iraq lead the table with seven points and Bahrain sit second on goal difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BAGHDAD, Iraq has proposed Jordan to host its 2022 World Cup and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37903","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","category-world-cup"],"views":781,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37903","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=37903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37905,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37903\/revisions\/37905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}