{"id":20572,"date":"2015-02-17T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20572"},"modified":"2015-02-17T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:00:46","slug":"beitashour-frustrated-at-being-omitted-from-team-melli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/02\/17\/beitashour-frustrated-at-being-omitted-from-team-melli\/","title":{"rendered":"Beitashour frustrated at being omitted from Team Melli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; VANCOUVER, <strong>Iranian national football team defender Steven Mehrdad Beitashour said that it was tough to being omitted from Team Melli for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Whitecaps right-back delayed start to pre-season is due to a mix-up with the Iranian soccer federation.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s staff had asked the Caps for Beitashour\u2019s release ahead of January\u2019s Asian Cup in Australia. But when the roster came out, he wasn\u2019t on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously it was tough \u2014 I got called in (by Iran) and then I don\u2019t know what happened,\u201d Beitashour told theprovince.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in incredible shape getting ready for Asian Cup and I didn\u2019t want to lose it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; VANCOUVER, Iranian national football team defender Steven Mehrdad Beitashour said that it was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":16154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3888,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20572","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=20572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}