{"id":20033,"date":"2015-01-07T07:51:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T15:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20033"},"modified":"2015-01-07T08:06:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T16:06:06","slug":"khanzadeh-replaces-injured-beikzadeh-in-irans-asian-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/07\/khanzadeh-replaces-injured-beikzadeh-in-irans-asian-cup-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Khanzadeh replaces injured Beikzadeh in Iran&#8217;s Asian Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; MELBOURNE,<strong> A hand injury sustained in Wednesday&#8217;s training session in Melbourne will cost Iranian veteran defender Hashem Beikzadeh the Asian Cup.<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-20038\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/khanzadeh3325-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Iran Portraits - 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/khanzadeh3325-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/khanzadeh3325-66x100.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/khanzadeh3325.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Esteghlal full-back, who was supposed to also serve as fourth choice center-back in Carlos Queiroz&#8217;s Asian Cup squad, was declared unfit for the tournament by the team doctor and will be replaced by Persepolis defender Mohammad-Reza Khanzadeh.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old was asked to join the rest of Team Melli as soon as possible and already is on his way to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>While right-footed Beikzadeh mostly plays as left- or right-back, he was tried out as center-back by Queiroz as well, most recently in the 1-0 friendly match victory over Iraq last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Khanzadeh is frequently playing as center- or right full-back, but usually isn&#8217;t used on the left defensive side, where now Mehrdad Pouladi and Ehsan Hajsafi are the only regular options.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad-Reza Khanzadeh had almost replaced Beikzadeh in the 23-man World Cup squad in summer, but the latter recovered in time from a muscle injury. While Khanzadeh had to remain in Iran, Beikzadeh remained on the bench during all three group matches.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will kick off their Asian Cup campaign versus Bahrain in Melbourne on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; MELBOURNE, A hand injury sustained in Wednesday&#8217;s training session in Melbourne will cost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":20037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6033,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033","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=20033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}