{"id":40658,"date":"2020-10-12T07:50:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40658"},"modified":"2020-10-12T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T14:50:16","slug":"azmoun-to-miss-friendly-match-against-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/10\/12\/azmoun-to-miss-friendly-match-against-mali\/","title":{"rendered":"Azmoun to miss friendly match against Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TASHKENT, <strong>Iran iconic forward Sardar Azmoun will be absent in the match against Mali.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dragan Skocic\u2019s team will meet Mali on Tuesday in Antalya, Turkey but the forward has returned to Russia to play for his club Zenit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 25-yard striker scored his 33rd goal against Uzbekistan just before half-time in Tashkent on Thursday, where Iran defeated their hosts 2-1 in a friendly match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These matches are part of preparation for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, where Iran sits third in Group C behind Iraq and Bahrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some media outlet reports suggested that the match would be canceled since two Malian players, namely Kiki Kouyat\u00e9 and Molla Wagu\u00e9 have tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TASHKENT, Iran iconic forward Sardar Azmoun will be absent in the match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":720,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658","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=40658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40660,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658\/revisions\/40660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}