{"id":12302,"date":"2011-07-17T04:45:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T11:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/07\/17\/madagascar-arrive-in-iran-with-19-players\/"},"modified":"2011-07-17T04:45:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T11:45:48","slug":"madagascar-arrive-in-iran-with-19-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/07\/17\/madagascar-arrive-in-iran-with-19-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar arrive in Iran with 19 players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/africanfootball.mtnfootball.com\/live\/images\/phase2_images\/Madagascar~1.jpg\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The football national team of Madagascar arrived in Tehran with a purely domestic 19-men-squad for the friendly match against Iran on Sunday (19:30 Tehran Time, Azadi stadium).<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The numerous legionnaires, who, however, mostly play in the French lower divisions, were not available, but the domestic players are mainly national team regulars.<\/p>\n<p>Madagascar, currenly in 138th position in the FIFA ranking, most recently lost 1-4 to Guinea in an away match of African Nations Cup qualificication in June, but had managed to hold the same opponent to a 1-1 draw at home in March.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly match will be Carlos Queiroz&#8217; first official match as Iran coach ans serves as preperation for the World Cup qualifiiers against the Maldives on July 23 and 28.<\/p>\n<p>Below comes the Madagascan squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers<\/strong><br \/>Kandy Hector Rambelomasina (Japan Actuel\u2019s FC)<br \/>Robin Jean-Claude Rakotonirina (Ascum)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders<\/strong><br \/>Jimmy Radafison (Seychelles)<br \/>Mamy Gervais Randrianarisoa (La R\u00e9union)<br \/>Pierralit Tovonay (Ajesaia)<br \/>Val\u00e9ry Solo Rakotoarinosy (Seychelles)<br \/>L\u00e9onard Besabotsy (AS Adema)<br \/>Abdallah Aoulad (Cnaps sport)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders<\/strong><br \/>Edgard Ndrasana (AS Adema)<br \/>Urbain Andriamampionona (Acad\u00e9mie ny Antsika)<br \/>Andry Lalaina Rakotozanany (Maurice)<br \/>Tholix Jean (AS Adema)<br \/>Jean-Jacques Razanajafy (Ajesaia)<br \/>Baggio Rakotonomenjanahary (La R\u00e9union)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strikers<\/strong><br \/>Lanto Rabeasimbola (La R\u00e9union)<br \/>Yvan Rajoarimanana (Cnaps sport)<br \/>Jeannot Vombola (Cnaps sport)<br \/>Fagnorena (Japan Actuel\u2019s FC)<br \/>Tovo Rabenandrasana (Cnaps sport)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, The football national team of Madagascar arrived in Tehran with a purely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6419,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302","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=12302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}