{"id":90465,"date":"2019-04-08T10:06:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghanistan-likely-to-face-iran-after-17-years\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:06:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:06:59","slug":"afghanistan-likely-to-face-iran-after-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghanistan-likely-to-face-iran-after-17-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan likely to face Iran after 17 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

KABUL (SW) – Afghanistan is set to face Iran in a friendly football match after a gap of some 17 years in June later this year.<\/p>\n

Based on media reports, Anoush Dastgir, coach for the Afghan national team, has sent a letter via Mustafa Meherzad, the caretaking manager for the national team, to Iranian side asking for a friendly match. The reports suggest reply from Tehran is likely to be positive, and a friendly game might be planned in Iran.<\/p>\n

The two sides last played a football game during the Asian Cup back in 2002. The game was won by Iran with a clear margin of 10-0.<\/p>\n

Based on the reports by Iran’s ‘Warzish-3’ and 90 Television, the Iranian Football Federation has welcomed the initiave by the Afghanistan Football Federation.<\/p>\n

The Afghan side has also proposed to donate the ticket revenue from this proposed game to the flood victims in Iran. Dastgir has urged fans to back this initiative.<\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KABUL (SW) \u2013 Afghanistan is set to face Iran in a friendly football match after a gap of some 17 years in June later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}