{"id":39880,"date":"2020-08-01T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39880"},"modified":"2020-08-01T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T17:06:07","slug":"team-melli-friendly-against-syria-not-yet-finalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/08\/01\/team-melli-friendly-against-syria-not-yet-finalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli friendly against Syria not yet finalized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>A friendly match between Iran national football team and Syria has not yet been finalized.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match was due to be held on Sept. 3 but two federations have not reached an agreement so far. However, Iran will meet Uzbekistan in Tashkent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clash will be held at the Bunyodkor Stadium on Sept.7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran and Syria are preparing for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran are in Group C, five points behind Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018Persian Leopards\u2019 have four must-win matches ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deagan Skocic\u2019s team are scheduled to host Hong Kong on October 8 in Tehran and meet Cambodia five days later in Phnom Penh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran\u2019s last two matches against Bahrain and Iraq &#8211; which are very crucial &#8211; will be against Bahrain and Iraq on November 12 and 17 in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Syria also lead Group A with 15 points, eight points ahead of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eight group winners and four best runners-up will advance to the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Finals and the final round of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next best 24 teams from the second round of the joint qualifiers will compete in a separate competition for the remaining 12 slots in the 24-team AFC Asian Cup China 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, A friendly match between Iran national football team and Syria has not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39880","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-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":375,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39880","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=39880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39882,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39880\/revisions\/39882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}