{"id":13109,"date":"2012-08-05T18:38:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T01:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/08\/05\/ghoochannejhad-to-join-team-melli\/"},"modified":"2012-08-05T18:38:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T01:38:33","slug":"ghoochannejhad-to-join-team-melli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/08\/05\/ghoochannejhad-to-join-team-melli\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghoochannejhad to join Team Melli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Ghooch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ghooch.jpg\" height=\"180\" width=\"320\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Sint Truiden striker Reza Ghoochannejhad is likely to join Iran&#8217;s upcoming training camp and friendly match against Tunisia (August 14) in Hungary, according to the player&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gh_reza\">Twitter channel<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Btwn 9th&amp;16th of August on a trip with the national team of Iran (Team Melli) in Budapest, Hungary. We&#8217;ll play a friendly game against Tunisia&#8221;<\/em>, the 24-year-old tweeted on Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Iranian sources had reported the Mashad-born leftfooter would join Iran for the Tunisia match.<\/p>\n<p>Iran boss Carlos Queiroz, who observed and visited the striker in Belgium three times will announce his roster at the beginning of next week.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Reportedly, Ghoochannejhad had already been ready to play for Iran earlier this year, but injuries and administrative issues delayed his debut.<\/p>\n<p>Ghoochannejhad had gone through Dutch club&#8217;s Heerenveen&#8217;s youth team before being transferred to second league after just two senior appearances.<\/p>\n<p>However, after 21 goals for Go Ahead Eagels and Cambuur SC within two seasons, the versatile striker was transferred to Sint Truiden in Belgium&#8217;s top division last summer, where he had a great season with 11 goals in 21 games, but, also due to a nagging injury, couldn&#8217;t prevent the club from relegation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite interest from several Belgian, Dutch and German clubs, Ghoochannejhad is still with Sint Truiden, where he still has a contract until the end of next season. <\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Austrian Bundesliga side Austria Vienna joined the bidders for Ghoochannejhad, who&#8217;s market value is estimated around \u20ac1.3 millions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Sint Truiden striker Reza Ghoochannejhad is likely to join Iran&#8217;s upcoming training&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4835,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109","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=13109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}