{"id":53120,"date":"2025-04-07T16:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53120"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T23:55:54","slug":"iran-to-play-friendly-matches-against-russia-and-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/04\/07\/iran-to-play-friendly-matches-against-russia-and-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to play friendly matches against Russia and Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TT &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Iran national football team are set to play friendly matches against Russia and Chile, according to Mehdi Taj, head of the Iran Football Federation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will face Russia on October 6, with a match against Chile scheduled for October 14, though Taj noted that the latter match has not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Taj also mentioned that the national team will participate in the 2025 CAFA Nations Cup in September as part of their preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Amir Ghalenoei\u2019s side are likely to play against an African or European team in November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iran national football team are set to play friendly matches against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":53121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3033,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53120","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\/34468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53122,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53120\/revisions\/53122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}