{"id":47178,"date":"2022-10-11T19:36:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T02:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=47178"},"modified":"2022-10-11T19:36:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T02:36:34","slug":"ffiri-team-melli-to-have-pre-wc-friendly-in-november%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/10\/11\/ffiri-team-melli-to-have-pre-wc-friendly-in-november%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"FFIRI: Team Melli to have pre-WC friendly in November\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran Football Federation vice-president Mehdi Mohammad Nabi has said that Team Melli will play a friendly match a week before the 2022 FIFA World Cup but the opponent is yet to be announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Nabi, Iran was supposed to play a match against a team from the Persian Gulf region but nothing has not been confirmed so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to play with a team from Persian Gulf countries but it has not been done yet. We will do our best to arrange a warm-up match before the World Cup,\u201d Nabi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli was also scheduled to meet Russia in Tehran in mid-November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The head coach of the Russian national football team Valery Karpin had said that his team will play Iran in a friendly match in Tehran or Doha on November 16th. However, the match was never confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, under the leadership of Queiroz, has played Uruguay and Senegal in Austria and one more friendly will be helpful for them ahead of the Qatar World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Queiroz replaced Dragan Skocic on Sept. 7th and needs more time to prepare his team for the World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is going to lead Iran in the finals which will be his third successive time in the World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran&#8217;s national football team will travel to Doha, Qatar on Nov. 14th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli has been drawn into Group B of the 2022 FIFA World Cup along with England, the U.S., and Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran Football Federation vice-president Mehdi Mohammad Nabi has said that Team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":47179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47178","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":1308,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47178","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=47178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47180,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47178\/revisions\/47180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}