{"id":45763,"date":"2022-05-12T19:09:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T02:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45763"},"modified":"2022-05-12T19:09:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T02:09:53","slug":"canada-to-host-iran-in-june-friendly-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/05\/12\/canada-to-host-iran-in-june-friendly-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to host Iran in June friendly [Confirmed]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CBC.ca &#8211; VANCOUVER, <strong>Canada will host Iran in a men&#8217;s soccer friendly on June 5th in Vancouver.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match is part of a two-game homestand at B.C. Place Stadium. The Canadian men will open CONCACAF Nations League A play there against Curacao on June 9 before closing out the FIFA international window with another CONCACAF Nations League game against Honduras in San Pedro Sula on June 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada, ranked 38th in the world, and No. 21 Iran are both preparing for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar this November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada will play in Group F alongside Belgium, Croatia and Morocco while Iran is in Group B with England, the U.S. and a European playoff winner still to be decided.The Vancouver matches are the first for Canada on home soil since qualifying for the World Cup in a 4-0 win over Jamaica at Toronto&#8217;s BMO Field on March 27. It also marks the Canadian men&#8217;s first visit to B.C. Place since March 2019 when they beat French Guiana 4-1 in CONCACAF Nations League qualifying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canadians topped the final round of CONCACAF qualifying with an 8-2-4 record. Their last game was a 1-0 loss in Panama on March 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada has a 1-2-0 all-time record against Iran, winning the most recent encounter 1-0 in April 2001 in Cairo. Iran posted 1-0 wins in 1997 and 1999 games in Toronto and Edmonton, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC.ca &#8211; VANCOUVER, Canada will host Iran in a men&#8217;s soccer friendly on June 5th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1910,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45763","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=45763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45765,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45763\/revisions\/45765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}