Bengaluru: India football head coach Stephen Constantine has pressed for an international friendly match before playing against formidable Iran in September in the 2018 football World Cup Qualification Preliminary Round Two in Bengaluru.


Stephen Constantine. Pic/PTI 

"I need more time for preparations. I need friendly games. I need my team to play a friendly before we take on Iran," he told reporters here. India play Guam on June 16 and then take on Iran on September 8 here in Group D of the Preliminary Round Two of the qualifiers.