{"id":41163,"date":"2020-12-12T08:50:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41163"},"modified":"2020-12-13T20:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T04:30:53","slug":"iran-to-host-bahrain-iraq-in-tehran-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/12\/12\/iran-to-host-bahrain-iraq-in-tehran-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to host Bahrain, Iraq in Tehran [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team will reportedly host Bahrain and Iraq in Tehran in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, kooora.com reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the site, Dragan Skocic&#8217;s team will take on Hong Kong on March 25, 2021, before facing Cambodia five days later.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli will meet Bahrain on June 7, 2021 and host Iraq on June 15 in Tehran in Group C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Media reports had previously suggested that Iran will play their remaining matches in&nbsp;neutral venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran sits third in the group and the matches are very important to Dragon Skocic\u2019s team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli is seeking a third consecutive appearance at the FIFA World Cup Finals but back-to-back defeats to Bahrain and Iraq in Group C of the Asian Qualifiers left the Central Asian side third in the standings, although it has a match in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team will reportedly host Bahrain and Iraq in Tehran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41163","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":1032,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41163","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=41163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41176,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41163\/revisions\/41176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}