{"id":54666,"date":"2026-03-20T22:57:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54666"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:59:25","slug":"iran-squad-for-nigera-and-costa-rica-friendlies-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/03\/20\/iran-squad-for-nigera-and-costa-rica-friendlies-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran squad for Nigeria and Costa Rica friendlies announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ana.ir &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The head coach of the Iranian national football team, Amir Ghalenoi, has invited the following 35 players to the national team preparation camp for two friendly fixtures against Nigeria and Costa Rica.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong><br \/>\nAlireza Biranvand<br \/>\nSeyyed Hossein Hosseini<br \/>\nPayam Niazmand<br \/>\nMohammad Khalifa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong><br \/>\nAli Nemati<br \/>\nHossein Abarghoui<br \/>\nShoja Khalilzadeh<br \/>\nSaman Fallah<br \/>\nHossein Kanaani<br \/>\nDaniel Iri<br \/>\nEhsan Haj Safi<br \/>\nMilad Mohammadi<br \/>\nAbolfazl Jalali<br \/>\nSaleh Hardani<br \/>\nRamin Rezaian<br \/>\nDaniel Esmaeilifar <\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong><br \/>\nSaeed Ezzatollahi<br \/>\nOmid Noorafkan<br \/>\nSaman Ghoddos<br \/>\nMohammad Ghorbani<br \/>\nMehdi Hashemnejad<br \/>\nAmir Razzaghinia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards:<\/strong><br \/>\nEhsan Mahroogi<br \/>\nAli Alipour<br \/>\nShahriar Moghanlou<br \/>\nHossein Abarghouei<br \/>\nMohammed Mohebi<br \/>\nAmirhossein Mahmoudi<br \/>\nAlireza Jahanbakhsh<br \/>\nAli Gholizadeh<br \/>\nMehdi Torabi<br \/>\nMehdi Ghayedi<br \/>\nMehdi Taremi<br \/>\nAmirhossein Hosseinzadeh<br \/>\nDennis Eckert Ayensa<\/p>\n<p>Denis Eckert, who has been invited to this camp, will officially obtain the conditions for playing with the shirt of the Iranian national team after obtaining the necessary permissions from FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>The national football team will travel to Turkey tomorrow for these two matches. The Iranian team will face Nigeria and Costa Rica on the 7th and 11th days of April, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ana.ir &#8211; TEHRAN, The head coach of the Iranian national football team, Amir Ghalenoi, has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2352,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54666","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=54666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54670,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54666\/revisions\/54670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}