{"id":26697,"date":"2021-07-06T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=26697"},"modified":"2021-07-06T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:08:24","slug":"spain-too-strong-for-iran-basketball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/26697\/spain-too-strong-for-iran-basketball-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain too strong for Iran basketball team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Spain basketball team defeated Iran 96-53 in their second friendly match at WiZink Center in Madrid Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Scariolo\u2019s team had defeated Iran 88-61 on Saturday in Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>The matches were held as part of preparation for the 2020 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Iran had lost to Japan twice and defeated them one time last week in three friendly matches held in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The Persians have been drawn with the U.S., France and Czech Republic in Group A of the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will compete at the Olympics for the third time in their history after earning their spot as the highest-ranked Asian team at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranians have previously participated at 1948 and 2008 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Spain basketball team defeated Iran 96-53 in their second friendly match at WiZink Center in Madrid Monday night. Sergio Scariolo\u2019s team had defeated Iran 88-61 on Saturday in Valencia. The matches were held as part of preparation for the 2020 Olympic Games. Iran had lost to Japan twice and defeated them one time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}