{"id":12938,"date":"2012-05-15T06:20:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T13:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/15\/omid-nazari-to-join-team-melli\/"},"modified":"2012-05-15T06:20:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T13:20:58","slug":"omid-nazari-to-join-team-melli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/15\/omid-nazari-to-join-team-melli\/","title":{"rendered":"Omid Nazari to join Team Melli [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mff.se\/~\/media\/MFF\/Genre_o_Personal\/Omid%20Nazari%20P-91_07.ashx?mw=518\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Carlos Queiroz confirmed that 21-year-old \u00c4ngelholms FF midfielder Omid Nazari will join Iran&#8217;s national team.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The Swedish-Iranian fooballer &#8211; son of an Iranian father and Filipino mother who was born an raised in Sweden &#8211; will directly travel to Istanbul to join the rest of the squad for the&nbsp; training camp from May 21 to June 1, Queiroz told reporters after Team Melli&#8217;s first training session in Tehran on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Only 13 players were present in the session, because the legionnaires didn&#8217;t arrive in Tehran yet and Ehsan Hajsafi also couldn&#8217;t join the first training. <\/p>\n<p>Queiroz further explained that a list with players from Sepahan, Esteghlal and Persepolis, who are still engaged in Asian Champions League action, will be announced on Wednesday, however, those playing in teams qualifying for next stage won&#8217;t be available before the beginning of the Turkey camp. <\/p>\n<p>The Portugese also added that Omid Nazari will be the only new legionnaire to join the squad for the upcoming games, thereby confirming Reza Ghoochannejhad will not become an Iranian international during the next weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Omid Nazari joined \u00c4ngelholms FF in Sweden&#8217;s second league &#8220;Superettan&#8221; from Malm\u00f6 FF in 2011 and after a quiet first year played an excellent 2012 season so far. He apppeared in all six matches this season and meanwhile didn&#8217;t only earn a fixed place in the team, but developed into one of the key players of the currently fifth place team.<\/p>\n<p>Nazari also scored his first goal of the season in the 2-1 win over Landskrona last week. <\/p>\n<p>He is the elder brother of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/live\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=4214:iranians-to-watch-abroad-amin-nazari&amp;catid=22&amp;Itemid=178\">Amin Nazari<\/a>, the 19-year-old Malm\u00f6 FF midfielder who is also linked with a Team Melli future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pfdctv.com\">Watch Carlos Queiroz Interview where he talks about Omid on PFDC TV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/42180091\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/42180091<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Carlos Queiroz confirmed that 21-year-old \u00c4ngelholms FF midfielder Omid Nazari will join&#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-12938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":8181,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938","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=12938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}