{"id":53721,"date":"2025-08-08T10:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53721"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:13:25","slug":"iran-russia-friendly-match-confirmed-for-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/08\/08\/iran-russia-friendly-match-confirmed-for-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-Russia friendly match confirmed for October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>A friendly match between the national football teams of Iran and Russia, slated for October 10, will be held at the Volgograd Arena in Russia\u2019s Volgograd.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran will meet the Russian team as part of preparation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Russia sits 35th in the FIFA rankings, while Iran is 20th in the latest world rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and Russia have enhanced their cooperation in the sports events in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Iran basketball team traveled to Moscow to play two friendly matches with Russia in preparation for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s futsal team is also scheduled to face its Russian counterpart in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, A friendly match between the national football teams of Iran and Russia,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2786,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53721","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=53721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53722,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53721\/revisions\/53722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}