{"id":19339,"date":"2014-09-30T02:02:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T09:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19339"},"modified":"2014-09-30T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T20:02:57","slug":"iff-announce-preliminary-squad-for-portugal-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/09\/30\/iff-announce-preliminary-squad-for-portugal-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"IFF announce preliminary squad for Portugal camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The website of the Iranian football federation (IFF) has published a list of more than 40 players as a preliminary squad for the upcoming training camp in Portugal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the exception of Bakhtiar Rahmani, the list includes all 23 World Cup participants while adding some drop-outs such as Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari, Sardar Azmoun, Mehdi Sharifi but also and fresh faces like Soroush Rafiei, Morteza Pouraliganji or Vouria Ghafouri.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly Iran&#8217;s former number one goalkeeper Mehdi Rahmati, who had fallen apart with Carlos Queiroz during the last World Cup qualifying campaign, is among the seven invited goalkeepers.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday Queiroz will trim the list to 26 players, who will then participate in the training camp in Portugal from October 4 &#8211; 11.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play friendly matches verus Portuguese first league sides Estoril and Benfica there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, The website of the Iranian football federation (IFF) has published a list&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":8442,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339","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=19339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}