{"id":11738,"date":"2010-12-22T19:02:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T03:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/22\/iran-names-27-men-squad-for-asian-cup\/"},"modified":"2010-12-22T19:02:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T03:02:48","slug":"iran-names-27-men-squad-for-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/22\/iran-names-27-men-squad-for-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran names 27-men squad for Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"ghotbi_press_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ghotbi_press_1.jpg\" height=\"296\" width=\"405\" \/>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran coach Afshin Ghotbi has picked a 27-man preliminary squad for  the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011 next month, according to Iran media  reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former Korea Republic assistant coach will have to trim the group to 23 by December 28th deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Mehr  reported that Ghotbi\u2019s ambition is to build a team for the future. The  coach is due to leave the national team after the AFC Asian Cup and join  Japanese side Shimizu S-Pulse.<\/p>\n<p>He was quoted as saying: \u201cI am  fully concentrated at the challenge ahead. I have worked over 20 months  to build an exciting team, Iran can be proud of. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis team has all the qualities to be the champion of Asia, and I am fully committed to make this dream a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran face United Arab Emirates, defending champions Iraq and DPR Korea in Group D of the AFC Asian Cup group stages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran squad comprise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Mehdi Rahmati, Ebrahim Mirzapour, Alireza Haghighi, Shahab Gordan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Khosro Heidari, Pejman Montazeri, Hadi Aghily, Mohamamd Nosrati, Jalal  Hosseini, Farshid Talebi, Ehsan Hajsafi, Abouzar Rahimi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Javad Nekounam, Andranik Teymourian, Ghasem Hadadifar,  Pejman Nouri, Iman Mobali, Mehdi Kiani, Mohammad Nouri.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards: <\/strong> Hadi Norouzi, Gholam Reza Rezaei, Masoud Shojaei, Karim Ansarifard,  Arash Afshin, Mohamamd Gholami, Reza Norouzi, Mohammad Reza Khalatbari.<\/p>\n<p>The  Iran squad are due to leave for Doha on December 24 and play warm-up  matches against Qatar and a Qatar second team. They will also face  Angola on January 2.<\/p>\n<p>The AFC Asian Cup is from January 7-29, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran coach Afshin Ghotbi has picked a 27-man preliminary squad for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5003,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}