{"id":12837,"date":"2012-04-05T17:43:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T00:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/04\/05\/18-called-up-for-uae-friendly\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T17:43:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T00:43:15","slug":"18-called-up-for-uae-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/04\/05\/18-called-up-for-uae-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"18 called up for UAE friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Sadeghian_TO\" src=\"\/live\/images\/stories\/Sadeghian_TO.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"300\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Carlos Queiroz invited 18 players for the friendly match against the UAE in Dubai on April 17.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The Portugese will be relying on a rather unexperienced squad because all legionnaires, apart from those playing in the opposition&#8217;s league will be unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the players from Persepolis, Esteghlal and Sepahan, will be busy with the Asian Champions League matchday on April 17 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, some youngsters, like former U17 and U19 team captain Payam Sadeghian (pictured) of Zob Ahan or versatile defender Shoja Khalilazadeh of Mes Kerman, can hope for a senior national team debut.<\/p>\n<p>Below comes the squad for the UAE match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Shahab Gordan (Zob Ahan), Mohsen Forouzan (Tractor Sazi)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Hossein Mahini (Zob Ahan), Shoja Khalilazadeh (Mes Kerman), Siamak Kouroushi (Naft Tehran), Amir-Hossein Sadeghi, Ehsan Hajsafi (both Tractor Sazi)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Reza Haghighi (Fajr Sepasi), Pejman Nouri (Emirates Club, UAE), Ghasem Hadadifar (Tractor Sazi), Ghasem Dehnavi (Mes Kerman), Payam Sadeghian (Zob Ahan)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wingers:<\/strong> Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari (Al Wasl, UAE), Arash Afshin (Foolad), Yaghoub Karimi (Naft Tehran)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strikers:<\/strong> Mohammad Ghazi (Zob Ahan), Karim Ansarifard (Saipa), Mohammad Gholami (Damash Gilan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Carlos Queiroz invited 18 players for the friendly match against the UAE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4974,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837","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=12837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}