{"id":34677,"date":"2018-12-26T10:36:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34677"},"modified":"2018-12-26T10:36:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:36:45","slug":"afc-asian-cup-2019-iran-ready-to-challenge-as-final-squad-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/26\/afc-asian-cup-2019-iran-ready-to-challenge-as-final-squad-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Asian Cup 2019: Iran ready to challenge as final squad announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Defensive midfielder Saeid Ezatolahi and winger Ali Gholizadeh are the major names missing from the Islamic Republic of Iran&#8217;s final squad for the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Ezatolahi, who plays for English club Reading, and Gholizadeh &#8211; who is with Belgian side Charleroi, are both nursing foot injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli, however, will not be lacking strength as head coach Carlos Queiroz has named a potent looking squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, seeking to win the AFC Asian Cup for the fourth time, are in Group D with Vietnam, Iraq and Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Asians will start their campaign against Yemen on January 7 before facing Vietnam on January 12 and Iraq four days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Iran Squad<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Alireza Beiranvand (Persepolis), Amir Abedzadeh (Maritimo), Payam Niazmand (Sepahan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Defenders: <\/strong>Ramin Rezaeian (Al-Shahania SC), Milad Mohammadi (Akhmat Grozny), Vouria Ghafouri (Esteghlal), Mohammadhossein Kananizadegan (Machine Sazi), Majid Hosseini (Trabzonspor) Ehsan Haji Safi (Tractor Sazi), Pejman Montazeri (Esteghlal), Morteza Pouraliganji (KAS Eupen).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Midfielders: <\/strong>Omid Ebrahimi (Qatar\u2019s Al Ahli), Ashkan Dejagah (Tractor Sazi), Rouzbeh Cheshmi (Esteghlal), Masoud Shojaei (Tractor Sazi), Ahmad Nourollahi (Persepolis), Vahid Amiri (Trabzonspor).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Strikers:<\/strong> Mehdi Taremi (Al Gharafa), Sardar Azmoun (Rubin Kazan), Mehdi Torabi (Persepolis), Saman Ghoddos (Amiens) , Alireza Jahanbakhsh (Brighton), Karim Ansarifard (Nottingham Forest).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, Defensive midfielder Saeid Ezatolahi and winger Ali Gholizadeh are the major names&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1781,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34677","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34679,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34677\/revisions\/34679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}