{"id":53877,"date":"2025-09-23T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53877"},"modified":"2025-09-23T08:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:45:40","slug":"ffiri-iran-to-play-mexico-in-friendly-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/09\/23\/ffiri-iran-to-play-mexico-in-friendly-report\/","title":{"rendered":"FFIRI: Iran to play Mexico in friendly [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mehdi Taj, head of Iran Football Federation, announced that Team Melli will play a friendly match against Mexico as part of preparation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The friendly is confirmed for the forthcoming international break, though the exact date has not been determined yet and will be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>A friendly is also scheduled against Russia, with Uruguay to be replaced by another opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Federation president Mehdi Taj recently stated that Iran head coach Amir Ghalenoei is a capable domestic coach and will remain as head coach of Iran beyond the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Taj also stated that Iran federation is asking FIFA to suspend Israeli regime from all activities related to football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Mehdi Taj, head of Iran Football Federation, announced that Team Melli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53877","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":1719,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53877","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=53877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53881,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53877\/revisions\/53881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}