{"id":23129,"date":"2015-11-04T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T19:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23129"},"modified":"2015-11-04T11:56:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T19:56:55","slug":"european-based-striking-trio-returns-for-turkmenistan-and-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/11\/04\/european-based-striking-trio-returns-for-turkmenistan-and-guam\/","title":{"rendered":"European based striking trio returns for Turkmenistan and Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Reza Ghoojannejhad, Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Karim Ansarifard were named in Carlos Queiroz&#8217;s 26-man squad for the World Cup qualifiers against Turkmenistan and in Guam on November 12 and 17.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The return of the trio comes in time as starting strikers Mehdi Taremi and Sardar Azmoun will be unavailable. The former will sit out his one-match suspension (yellow cards) against Turkmenistan while the latter will most likely miss both matches due to a groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>Also unavailable due to injury will be center-back Jalal Hosseini and right-back Vouria Ghafouri. Ezzatollah Pourghaz and Khosro Heydari have been invited instead.<\/p>\n<p>Also new is Kamal Kamyabinia, who will serve as alternative to Andranik Teymourian, Omid Ebrahimi and Saeid Ezatollahi in central midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Below comes the full squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Alireza Haghighi (Rubin Kazan &#8211; RUS), Alireza Beiranvand (Naft Tehran), Soosha Makani (Persepolis), Mohammad-Reza Akhbari (Tractor Sazi)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Khosro Heydari (Esteghlal), Ramin Rezaeian (Persepolis), Pejman Montazeri (Al Ahli &#8211; QAT), Morteza Pouraliganji (Tianjin Teda &#8211; CHN), Hossein Kanani (Malavan), Ezzatollah Pourghaz (Malavan), Ehsan Hajsafi (FSV Frankfurt &#8211; GER), Milad Mohammadi (Rah Ahan)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Andranik Teymourian (Umm Salal &#8211; QAT), Omid Ebrahimi (Esteghlal), Saeid Ezatollahi (FC Rostov &#8211; RUS), Kamal Kamyabinia (Perspolis), Masoud Shojaei (Al Gharafa &#8211; QAT), Ashkan Dejagah (Al Arabi &#8211; QAT)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strikers:<\/strong> Alireza Jahanbakhsh (AZ Alkmaar &#8211; NED),\u00a0Vahid Amiri (Naft Tehran), Mehdi Torabi (Saipa), Mehdi Taremi (Perspolis), Sardar Azmoun* (FC Rostov &#8211; RUS), Karim Ansarifard (Panionios &#8211; GRE), Reza Ghoochannejhad (Charlton Athletic &#8211; ENG), Kaveh Rezaei (Zob Ahan)<\/p>\n<p><em>*injured<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, Reza Ghoojannejhad, Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Karim Ansarifard were named in Carlos Queiroz&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":22995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2243,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23129","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=23129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}