{"id":13182,"date":"2012-10-04T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T17:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/04\/ghoochannejhad-cleared-to-play-for-iran\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T10:54:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T17:54:55","slug":"ghoochannejhad-cleared-to-play-for-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/04\/ghoochannejhad-cleared-to-play-for-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghoochannejhad cleared to play for Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Ghooch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ghooch.jpg\" height=\"180\" width=\"320\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Sint Truiden striker Reza Ghoochannejhad finally received his player passport from FIFA and will be able to play for Iran against South Korea in World Cup qualifiers on October 16.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by Iran boss Carlos Queiroz in a press conference on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Ghoochannejhad, who currently plays for Sint Truiden in Belgium&#8217;s second division but has already signed a deal with Belgian giants Standard Liege starting from January, had already been a part of Iran&#8217;s roster twice this year. <\/p>\n<p>However, due to missing papers confirming the Dutch-Iranian having been born in Mashad FIFA&#8217;s approval was delayed.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old leftfooter could be the much needed boost for Iran&#8217;s attack, having scored 12 goals in first league last season and already in three second league and one in Belgian Cup this season in overall just four appearances. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Iran&#8217;s training camp resumed on Thursday with 14 players present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Sint Truiden striker Reza Ghoochannejhad finally received his player passport from FIFA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4628,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13182","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=13182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}