{"id":48895,"date":"2023-05-10T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T02:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48895"},"modified":"2023-05-10T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T02:19:10","slug":"ffiri-iran-and-saudi-arabia-likely-to-play-friendly-in-september-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/05\/10\/ffiri-iran-and-saudi-arabia-likely-to-play-friendly-in-september-report\/","title":{"rendered":"FFIRI: Iran and Saudi Arabia likely to play friendly in September [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran and Saudi Arabia\u2019s national football teams will most likely face each other in a friendly match in September.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to an IRNA report on Wednesday, President of Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mehdi Taj had held a meeting with President of the Saudi Federation Yaser Al-Mashal about 10 days ago, in which the two sides discussed the expansion of soccer relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>In the meeting, the two soccer officials negotiated organizing a friendly match between the Iranian and Saudi Arabian national football teams, said the report.<\/p>\n<p>Based on initial talks, the friendly match could be held in September in Saudi Arabia or the UAE, it added. <\/p>\n<p>The report also said that Iran&#8217;s U-17 team traveled to the UAE on Wednesday to hold a two friendly match series against the Saudi Arabian youth side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran and Saudi Arabia\u2019s national football teams will most likely face each&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48895","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"],"views":989,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48895","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=48895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48897,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48895\/revisions\/48897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}