{"id":5529,"date":"2021-05-29T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/?p=5529"},"modified":"2021-05-29T14:07:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T08:22:24","slug":"nepal-ready-for-iraq-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2021\/05\/29\/nepal-ready-for-iraq-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal \u2018ready\u2019 for Iraq showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu<\/strong>: Nepali national team has completed all preparations for the friendly match against Iraq on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepal will play against Iraq at Al Fayhaa Stadium in Basra at 7:30 pm local time (10:15 pm NST). The team trained in Basra Sports Complex on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to ANFA Media, National team coach Abdullah Almutairi said the friendly against Iraq was more about performance rather than the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I hope it is going to be a learning experience for our young squad. Rather than seeking the result, it is about evaluating yourself and trying to improve on it in the future,&#8221; coach Abdullah said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Nepal has played three times against Iraq losing on all three occasions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>National team captain Kiran Kumar Limbu said the team was ready to play against Iraq. &#8220;It\u2019s a great opportunity for Nepal to play against Iraq and it is going to be a good experience for our World Cup Qualifiers matches in Kuwait. We have trained well and prepared for it,&#8221; said Chemjong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepal has played three times against Iraq losing on all three occasions. The latest of the match was in April, 2001 when Iraq defeated Nepal 4-2 in World Cup Qualifier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The friendly match against Iraq will be followed by a second round of World Cup Qualifiers against Chinese Taipei on June 3, against Jordan on June 7, and against Australia on June 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Nepali national team has completed all preparations for the friendly match against Iraq on Saturday. Nepal will play against Iraq at Al Fayhaa Stadium in Basra at 7:30 pm local time (10:15 pm NST). The team trained in Basra Sports Complex on Thursday evening. Speaking to ANFA Media, National team coach Abdullah Almutairi said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Nepali-team.jpg?fit=1280%2C735&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-1rb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}