{"id":38771,"date":"2026-09-30T23:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-set-to-face-guinea-bissau-in-friendly\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T23:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:30:02","slug":"iran-set-to-face-guinea-bissau-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-set-to-face-guinea-bissau-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran set to face Guinea-Bissau in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6196800.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The national Iranian men&#8217;s football team began the window with a 3\u20131 loss to Uzbekistan in their first friendly. Amir Ghalenoei\u2019s side then traveled to Kazan to take on Russia, where they were beaten 2\u20130 by the hosts, Tehran Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>The back-to-back defeats have provided the coaching staff with an opportunity to assess the squad and identify areas that need improvement ahead of the team\u2019s upcoming competitive fixtures. The match against Guinea-Bissau is expected to give Ghalenoei another chance to evaluate his players and test different combinations before the end of the preparation period.<\/p>\n<p>According to Iranian media reports, the match against Guinea-Bissau will be played in Istanbul, Turkey. The fixture will give Iran another opportunity to build cohesion within the squad and address weaknesses exposed during the previous two matches.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly is also part of Iran\u2019s broader preparations for the 2027 AFC Asian Cup, where Team Melli have been drawn in Group C alongside China, Kyrgyzstan and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/248223\/Iran-set-to-face-Guinea-Bissau-in-friendly\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national Iranian men&#8217;s football team began the window with a 3\u20131 loss to Uzbekistan in their first friendly. Amir Ghalenoei\u2019s side then traveled to Kazan to take on Russia, where they were beaten 2\u20130 by the hosts, Tehran Times reported. The back-to-back defeats have provided the coaching staff with an opportunity to assess the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38771","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=38771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}