{"id":12978,"date":"2012-05-27T13:48:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T20:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/27\/dejagah-to-join-team-melli-squad\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T20:48:38","slug":"dejagah-to-join-team-melli-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/27\/dejagah-to-join-team-melli-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Dejagah to join Team Melli squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Dejagah_celebrating_Wolfsburg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dejagah_celebrating_Wolfsburg.jpg\" height=\"194\" width=\"350\" \/>PFDC &#8211; ISTANBUL, <strong>Vfl Wolfsburg and Iran winger Ashkan Dejagah will arrive in Istanbul on Sunday night, despite being doubtful for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers due to injury.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>A pulled hamstring in the thigh, suffered in German Bundesliga almost a month ago, reportedly will rule out the 25-year-old from Iran&#8217;s important games in early June, however, Dejagah will fly directly from Germany to Istanbul, where Team Melli currently hold a training camp until June 1. <\/p>\n<p>Dejagah will arrive in Turkey at 10:45pm Sunday night and will be examined by the Iranian national team&#8217;s medical staff there during the next days. <\/p>\n<p>Recent reports indicated that Dejagah is recovering well, but will still miss out the two qualifiers against Uzbekistan (June 3) and Qatar (June 12). <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Team Melli will take on Albania in a friendly match in Istanbul (19:00 local time) on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Albania just recently defeated Qatar 2-1 in a friendly match in Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; ISTANBUL, Vfl Wolfsburg and Iran winger Ashkan Dejagah will arrive in Istanbul on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3990,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12978","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=12978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}