{"id":19967,"date":"2015-01-02T15:09:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T23:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19967"},"modified":"2015-01-02T15:09:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T23:09:33","slug":"frenz-indonesia-football-team-bolstered-by-iranian-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/02\/frenz-indonesia-football-team-bolstered-by-iranian-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"Frenz Indonesia football team bolstered by Iranian striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Online, Eric Samuel &#8211; PALEMBANG, <strong>Frenz Indonesia will be boosted by the presence of Iranian hotshot Reza Kerimi when they host Liverpool in the third Frenz International Cup (FIC) opening Group A match at the Stadium Gelora Sriwijaya here on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iran Under-17 striker will provide the firepower in the Indonesians\u2019 challenge which includes matches against Guangzhou Evergrande (China) and Feyenoord (Holland).<\/p>\n<p>Frenz Indonesia coach Mohd Zahid Hashim said Reza who played in the last two FIC finals with Iran will give them the competitive edge in the Under-18 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The former Malaysian Armed Forces player said besides Reza, they have also bolstered the defence with another two Iranians Nima Dageshtani and Arash Ghafour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrenz Indonesia is made up of three players from Iran, seven from Malaysia and 14 Indonesians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a unique set-up but with a common goal. The boys have everything going for them at the club to pursue their education as well as their ambition to turn pro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frenz Indonesia and Frenz Malaysia are both based in Janda Baik, Pahang. The players from Iran were roped in last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a pity our striker Ivan Hafila will be out after picking up a hamstring injury recently,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Izat Mukhlis will get to start with Reza upfront against Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>The last meeting against the English club was during the team\u2019s playing tour of England in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>They lost to Liverpool (2-1), Everton (5-2) and Blackburn (6-0).<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia also host the Group B matches involving Chonburi FC (Thailand), SC Internacional (Brazil), Kashima Antlers (Japan) and Valencia (Spain).<\/p>\n<p>Matches in Group C comprising Besiktas (Turkey), Gamba Osaka (Japan), PVF Vietnam and Porto (Portugal) will be played in Shah Alam, Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Online, Eric Samuel &#8211; PALEMBANG, Frenz Indonesia will be boosted by the presence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":5277,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19967","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}