{"id":13306,"date":"2012-12-03T21:45:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T05:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/12\/03\/queiroz-names-final-20-for-waff\/"},"modified":"2012-12-03T21:45:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T05:45:25","slug":"queiroz-names-final-20-for-waff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/12\/03\/queiroz-names-final-20-for-waff\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz names final 20 for WAFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Sadeghian_TO\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Sadeghian_TO.jpg\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran boss Carlos Queiroz has reduced his initial 30-man squad to 20 for the upcoming West Asian football federation (WAFF) championship in Kuwait.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Queiroz reportedly was not supposed to coach Team Melli in the tournament, but in the end agreed with IFF boss Ali Kafashian to helm the team after all. <\/p>\n<p>The named squad includes many usual reserve players but also numerous young prospects are in the final list. <\/p>\n<p>Alireza Haghighi and Omid Nazari are the only two legionnaires in the roster. <\/p>\n<p>Record title holders Iran will kick off the tournament against Saudi Arabia on Sunday before meeting Bahrain and Yemen in group B.<\/p>\n<p>Group A consists of hosts and title holders Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon and Palestine whereas group C only features three teams &#8211; Iraq, Jordan and Syria. <\/p>\n<p>Below comes the squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Alireza Haghighi (Rubin Kazan, RUS), Sousha Makani (Naft Tehran), Hamed Lak (Saba Qom)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Hossein Mahini (Persepolis Tehran), Milad Fakhreddini (Tractor Sazi Tabriz), Pejman Montazeri (Esteghlal Tehran), Shoja Khalilzadeh (Mes Kerman), Mohammad-Reza Khanzadeh (Persepolis Tehran), Mehrdad Pouladi (Persepolis Tehran), Ehsan Hajsafi (Tractor Sazi Tabriz)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Omid Nazari (\u00c4ngelholms FF, SWE), Omid Ebrahimi (Sepahan Esfahan), Ghasem Dehnavi (Tractor Sazi Tabriz), Milad Nouri (Saba Qom), Mohsen Mosalman (Zob Ahan Esfahan)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strikers:<\/strong> Arash Afshin (Foolad Khuzestan), Payam Sadeghian (Zob Ahan Esfahan), Jalal Rafkhaei (Malavan Anzali), Ahmad Hassanzadeh (Mes Kerman), Yaghoub Karimi (Naft Tehran)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran boss Carlos Queiroz has reduced his initial 30-man squad to 20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4846,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306","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=13306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}