{"id":12747,"date":"2012-02-14T21:03:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T05:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/14\/report-dejagah-to-join-iran-for-qatar-game\/"},"modified":"2012-02-14T21:03:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T05:03:51","slug":"report-dejagah-to-join-iran-for-qatar-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/14\/report-dejagah-to-join-iran-for-qatar-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Dejagah to join Iran for Qatar game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Dejagah\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Dejagah.jpg\" height=\"212\" width=\"180\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Tehran-born Vfl Wolfsburg winger Ashkan Dejagah will finally debut for Iran in the World Cup qualifier against Qatar, &#8216;Khabar Online&#8217; reported on Tuesday.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The former German U21 player had announced his willingness to play for Iran&#8217;s national team repeatedly in the past, however, he had also declined several invitations, most recently for the 2011 Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>However, now Iran assistant coach Omid Namazi told reporters that Dejagah and his agent Reza Fazeli confirmed to Iran boss Carlos Queiroz that the 25-year-old will travel to Tehran a day after Wolfsburg&#8217;s Bundesliga clash with Hoffenheim on February 25.<\/p>\n<p>Dejagah, who has been named in Queiroz&#8217; preliminary 37-men-squad for the game, had been expected to join Iran&#8217;s national team for the previous qualifiers, but couldn&#8217;t join, first due to administrative issues in Iran, and then due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 2008\/09 Bundesliga champion had become eligible to play for Team Melli again in 2009 due to a change in FIFA statutes, allowing players having played in inofficial or youth matches for a country, to switch to another national team under certain circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Tehran-born Vfl Wolfsburg winger Ashkan Dejagah will finally debut for Iran in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4721,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747","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=12747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}