TEHRAN – Iran national football team are still eager to play a friendly match with Senegal in September.The ‘Persian Leopards’ are scheduled to meet Uruguay in Vienna, Austria on Sept.

23.

La Celeste are in Group H of the 2022 FIFA World Cup along with Portugal, Guinea and South Korea.Now, the local media reports suggest that Dragan Skocic’s team will likely play a friendly match with Senegal four days later in the same place.

The Lions of Teranga are in Group A along with Qatar, Ecuador and the Netherlands.Iran will participate at the World Cup for the sixth time in the country's history and on a third consecutive occasion.The Persians will kick off their campaign against star-studded England on Nov.

21 before taking on Wales and the U.S.

in Group B.