{"id":40667,"date":"2020-10-12T07:54:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40667"},"modified":"2020-10-12T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T14:54:58","slug":"mali-match-a-big-test-for-iran-dragan-skocic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/10\/12\/mali-match-a-big-test-for-iran-dragan-skocic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali match a big test for Iran: Dragan Skocic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ANTALYA, <strong>Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic believes that the friendly match against Mali can be a big test for his team.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will meet the African team on Tuesday in Antalya, Turkey. The Persians defeated Uzbekistan 2-1 on Thursday in Tashkent thanks to goals from Sardar Azmoun and Mehdi Taremi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran prepare for the 2022 World Cup qualification, when they sit third in Group C behind Iraq and Bahrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe match against Mali will be a big test for our team. Mali are an African strong team like Nigeria and Senegal. Almost all of their players are members of the European teams,\u201d Skocic said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe must challenge ourselves in the match against Malian players who have good physical strength. Our players are highly motivated for this match,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ANTALYA, Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic believes that the friendly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":685,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40667","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=40667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40669,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40667\/revisions\/40669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}