{"id":45738,"date":"2022-05-10T06:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45738"},"modified":"2022-05-10T07:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T14:00:15","slug":"iran-looking-to-face-albania-in-friendly-report-%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/05\/10\/iran-looking-to-face-albania-in-friendly-report-%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran looking to face Albania in friendly [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football team will likely play Albania in a friendly ahead of this year&#8217;s World Cup, the football federation\u2019s secretary-general Hassan Kamranifar said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will travel to Canada next month to hold their training camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will play Canada in Toronto and also want to play Albania. The latter has not been confirmed yet. Given the long-distance trip, the Iranian team would rather play more than one team,\u201d Kamranifar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran and Canada both qualified for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran is pitted against England, the U.S., and Ukraine\/Scotland or Wales in Group B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada is in Group F along with Belgium, Croatia, and Morocco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will also play a friendly with New Zealand in Doha, Qatar in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football team will likely play Albania in a friendly ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45738","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","category-world-cup"],"views":1451,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45738","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=45738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45741,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45738\/revisions\/45741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}