{"id":38942,"date":"2020-03-21T22:56:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T05:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38942"},"modified":"2020-03-21T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T05:56:13","slug":"iran-to-play-croatia-in-friendly-dragan-skocic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/03\/21\/iran-to-play-croatia-in-friendly-dragan-skocic\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play Croatia in friendly: Dragan Skocic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team will meet Croatia in an international friendly match, Team Melli coach Dragan Skocic said on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a meeting which was held in Croatian Football Federation\u2019s headquarters in late February, Skocic and Croatian Football Federation president Davor Suker underlined their willingness to promote cooperation in football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Skocic has revealed that they had negotiated about a warm-up match between two teams after the end of the Covid-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran have already played Croatia two times. Team Melli lost to Croatia 2-0 in June 1998 in Rijeka and drew 2-2 with the European giants in Lovech in May 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran have must-win matches in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualification against Hong Kong, Cambodia, Bahrain and Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team will meet Croatia in an international friendly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1184,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38942","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=38942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38944,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38942\/revisions\/38944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}