{"id":40209,"date":"2020-09-02T17:56:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T00:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40209"},"modified":"2020-09-02T17:56:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T00:56:44","slug":"friendly-iran-to-meet-uzbekistan-on-oct-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/02\/friendly-iran-to-meet-uzbekistan-on-oct-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendly: Iran to meet Uzbekistan on Oct. 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team will play Uzbekistan on Oct. 8 in a friendly match.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match was originally scheduled for Sept. 7 but FIFA replaced the window from 31 Aug. to 8 Sept. in response to the global disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and it meant the \u2018Persian Leopards\u201d would have to change their fixture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The friendly match between Iran and Syria scheduled for Sept. 3 had been previously cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2022 World Cup qualifiers scheduled this year were postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, who sit third in Group C behind Iraq and Bahrain, have four must-win matches ahead in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deagan Skocic\u2019s team were due to host Hong Kong and Cambodia on Oct. 8 and 13 in Tehran and Phnom Penh, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran also had two matches against Bahrain and Iraq on Nov. 12 and 17 in Tehran but the games will be held in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eight group winners of the World Cup qualification\u2019s group stage 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>The FIFA World Cup in Qatar will run from November 21 to December 18, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team will play Uzbekistan on Oct. 8 in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40209","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","category-world-cup"],"views":448,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40209","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=40209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40211,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40209\/revisions\/40211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}