{"id":45839,"date":"2022-05-22T07:55:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45839"},"modified":"2022-05-22T07:55:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T14:55:35","slug":"iran-may-face-senegal-in-pre-wc-friendly-report-%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/05\/22\/iran-may-face-senegal-in-pre-wc-friendly-report-%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran may face Senegal in pre-WC friendly [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Iran national football team will likely face African powerhouse Senegal ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The football federation of Iran had previously announced a friendly match with Ecuador, but the two parties have been unable to confirm the match or a venue to host it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran will meet Canada on June 5th in Vancouver, and the federation announced that they are ready to play the South American team in Toronto, however, difficulties faced in confirming a stadium for the game may see this plan fall through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a replacement, Dragan Skocic\u2019s team may play Senegal in Tehran if the match with Ecuador is canceled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reigning Africa Cup of Nations champions Senegal has been drawn against hosts Qatar, the Netherlands, and Ecuador in Group A in the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran, who are playing in their third straight World Cup after featuring in the 2014 and 2018 editions, are pitted in Group B along with England, the U.S., and one of Ukraine, Wales or Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2022 FIFA World Cup will be held in Qatar, from Nov. 21st to Dec. 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iran national football team will likely face African powerhouse Senegal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45839","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":1174,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45839","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=45839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45842,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45839\/revisions\/45842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}