{"id":49492,"date":"2023-08-04T09:41:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T16:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=49492"},"modified":"2023-08-05T11:37:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T18:37:42","slug":"team-melli-to-face-cape-verde-in-friendly-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/08\/04\/team-melli-to-face-cape-verde-in-friendly-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli to face Cape Verde in friendly [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Iran national football team will play a friendly match with Cape Verde in early September.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will also face Bulgaria at the Hristo Botev Stadium in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, slated for Sept. 7 as well.<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Taj, head of Iran\u2019s Football Federation, has confirmed that the National Team will also participate in a Jordanian four-team tournament in Amman in October as part of preparation for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Three-time winners Team Melli are drawn along the UAE, Hong Kong and Palestine in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>The continental showpiece, scheduled for Jan. 12 to Feb. 10, 2024 promises to be a thrilling affair with seven former winners among the 24 teams &#8211; seeded in accordance with the latest FIFA World Ranking &#8211; divided into six groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iran national football team will play a friendly match with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":49493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49492","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"],"views":640,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49492","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=49492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49504,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49492\/revisions\/49504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}