{"id":44746,"date":"2014-06-24T02:15:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T02:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/did_you_know_dept-nigeria_and_iran_could_be_forced_to_draw_lots_in_the_wo\/"},"modified":"2014-06-24T02:15:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T02:15:22","slug":"did_you_know_dept-nigeria_and_iran_could_be_forced_to_draw_lots_in_the_wo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44746","title":{"rendered":"Did you know Dept.&#8211;Nigeria and Iran could be forced to draw lots in the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria and Iran could see their World Cup fate decided by the drawing of lots.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina play Nigeria and Iran face Bosnia-Herzegovina in Group F&#8217;s final matches on Wednesday, and if Iran and Argentina were both to win their games 1-0 then the FIFA Organising Committee would need to draw lots to determine whether the Super Eagles or Team Melli would advance.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and Nigeria drew 0-0 in their opening match, with Iran then losing 1-0 to Argentina and Nigeria beating Bosnia &#038; Herzegovina 1-0 in their second games.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA rules determine that teams should be separated first by points, then goal difference, then goals scored and then their head-to-head record. However, lots are used as a last recourse if they cannot otherwise be set apart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/sport\/story\/317887.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria and Iran could see their World Cup fate decided by the drawing of lots. Argentina play Nigeria and Iran face Bosnia-Herzegovina in Group F&#8217;s final matches on Wednesday, and if Iran and Argentina were both to win their games<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44746\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,202,357,119,564,125,203,327,208,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-brazil","category-globalization","category-iran","category-men","category-middle-east","category-nigeria","category-south-america","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}