{"id":37130,"date":"2026-03-22T13:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/iran-to-meet-nigeria-costa-rica-in-turkey\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:24:45","slug":"iran-to-meet-nigeria-costa-rica-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-to-meet-nigeria-costa-rica-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to meet Nigeria, Costa Rica in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5957989.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Iran national football team will play two friendly matches on March 27 and 31 in Turkey, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will face the Nigeria national football team in a friendly match on March 27 and Play Costa Rica four days later.<\/p>\n<p>Iran head coach Amir Ghalenoei has invited 35 players to the national team for two matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The matches are part of preparations led by head coach Ghalenoei during the upcoming FIFA international window.<\/p>\n<p>By selecting opponents from two different continents, the federation appears determined to challenge the team against varied playing styles ahead of the upcoming World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Iran are drawn in Group G along with Belgium, Egypt and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/524853\/Iran-to-meet-Nigeria-Costa-Rica-in-Turkey\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Iran national football team will play two friendly matches on March 27 and 31 in Turkey, respectively. Team Melli will face the Nigeria national football team in a friendly match on March 27 and Play Costa Rica four days later. Iran head coach Amir Ghalenoei has invited 35 players to the national team &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6427,56,572],"class_list":["post-37130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nigeria","tag-sports","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}