{"id":12453,"date":"2011-10-01T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T01:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/01\/21-players-invited-for-palestine-and-bahrain\/"},"modified":"2011-10-01T18:32:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T01:32:22","slug":"21-players-invited-for-palestine-and-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/01\/21-players-invited-for-palestine-and-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"21 players invited for Palestine and Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"meydavoudi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/meydavoudi.jpg\" height=\"242\" width=\"339\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Carlos Queiroz dropped Ashkan Dejagah and injured Masoud Shojaei but invited 21 players for the friendly match against Palestine (October 5) and the World Cup qualifier against Bahrain (October 11).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No specific reasons were cited why Dejagah will yet again not debut for Iran, however, in recent days issues about his military service arose.<\/p>\n<p>Also missing is veteran striker Farhad Majidi for the two matches in Tehran&#8217;s Azadi stadium, who, not for the first time, announced his retirement, claiming that younger players should play instead of him. <\/p>\n<p>Queiroz, however, vowed to still invite up to three further players in the next days, probably after Sepahan and Zob Ahan have played their league matches tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will start training on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Below comes the roster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Mehdi Rahmati, Shahab Gordan, Alireza Haghighi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Khosro Heydari, Hossein Mahini, Hadi Aghily, Jalal Hosseini, Pejman Montazeri, Ehsan Hajsafi,\u00a0 Mehrdad Pouladi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfield:<\/strong> Javad Nekounam, Andranik Teymourian,\u00a0 Maziar Zare, Pejman Nouri,<br \/>Ali Karimi, Mojtaba Jabbari<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strikers:<\/strong> Karim Ansarifard, Milad Meydavoudi, Mohammad Ghazi, Gholamreza Rezaei, Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Carlos Queiroz dropped Ashkan Dejagah and injured Masoud Shojaei but invited 21&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4709,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453","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=12453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}