{"id":40997,"date":"2020-11-21T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40997"},"modified":"2020-11-21T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T17:52:00","slug":"asian-qualifiers-iran-looks-to-close-five-point-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/11\/21\/asian-qualifiers-iran-looks-to-close-five-point-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Qualifiers: Iran looks to close five-point gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR,<strong> Iran\u2019s national football team is looking to close the five-point gap at the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, the-afc.com wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq &#8211; on 11 points &#8211; is two ahead of Bahrain in Group C but both nations have played five games to the four contested by Iran, who sits in third spot on six points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli head coach Dragan Skocic will be looking to close the five-point gap with the Iraqis once play resumes as the West Asian team looks to qualify for a third successive FIFA World Cup Finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hong Kong is fourth with five points while Cambodia only has a point to show from five matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dates for the Asian Qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 were approved by the AFC Competitions Committee and it was agreed that all the Asian Qualifiers Round 2 matches should be completed by June 15, 2021 with Match Day 7 and 8 in March 2021 and Match Day 9 and 10 in June 2021 with the Final Round of the Asian Qualifiers beginning in September 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will meet Hong Kong and Cambodia in March 2021 and face Bahrain and Iraq in June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran\u2019s national football team is looking to close the five-point gap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40997","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":1176,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40997","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=40997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40999,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40997\/revisions\/40999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}