{"id":12200,"date":"2011-06-02T07:16:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/02\/queiroz-opens-team-melli-doors-for-dejagah\/"},"modified":"2011-06-02T07:16:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:16:16","slug":"queiroz-opens-team-melli-doors-for-dejagah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/02\/queiroz-opens-team-melli-doors-for-dejagah\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz opens Team Melli doors for Dejagah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Dejagah1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dejagah1.jpg\" height=\"344\" width=\"245\" \/>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran coach Carlos Queiroz has once again opened Team Melli doors for  Iranian-German striker Ashkan Dejagah saying he can join the team if  proves himself. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old struts his stuff for Bundesliga outfit VfL  Wolfsburg and had received a similar offer from former Iran coach Afshin  Ghotbi to play in the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDejagah could  join us if he proves himself. We sent one of our staff to Germany to see  Wolfsburg match. Every Iranian player who plays outside Iran has the  right to join his country\u2019s team. It depends on him,\u201d Queiroz said on  possibility of Dejagah joining the team.<\/p>\n<p>Dejagah represented  German national youth teams but is eligible to play for his country of  birth under new FIFA rules which came into force in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Iran,  who are preparing for their 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against  Maldives, will play a friendly against Madagascar on June 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe  match will be held before our important match against the Maldives and  it\u2019s important for us to find out our best lineup,\u201d Queiroz said. <\/p>\n<p>Iran are scheduled to play Maldives on June 29 and July 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran coach Carlos Queiroz has once again opened Team Melli doors for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5385,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}