{"id":23206,"date":"2015-11-09T10:55:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T18:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23206"},"modified":"2015-11-09T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T18:55:51","slug":"breaking-news-ehsan-hajsafi-denied-entry-to-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/11\/09\/breaking-news-ehsan-hajsafi-denied-entry-to-guam\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Ehsan Hajsafi denied entry to Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; HAGATNA, <strong>Iran and FSV Frankfurt leftback Ehsan Hajsafi will miss Iran&#8217;s World Cup qualifier in Guam next Tuesday, after US authorities denied him visa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exact reasons behind this decision remain unclear, although Iranian students&#8217; news agency ISNA claim the denial is in connection with Hajsafi&#8217;s military service, which he served in Tabriz whilst playing for Tractor Sazi 2011-2012.<\/p>\n<p>Rah Ahan&#8217;s Milad Mohammadi, who had been dropped from the list recently, was re-invited to fill the gap.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Iran skipper Andranik Teymourian, goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi and winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh are still waiting for their visas to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Also shooting star Sardar Azmoun&#8217;s visa request has remained unanswered, but the striker will miss the clash anyhow due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Iran&#8217;s charter flight to Guam was also canceled as they would not have been allowed to lang in Guam, forcing Iran&#8217;s national team to take a longer 30-hour indirect route.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, minnows Guam&#8217;s complaint about difficulcies in obtaining visas for Iran has received world-wide media echo.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, all Guam players were granted visas days ahead of the clash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; HAGATNA, Iran and FSV Frankfurt leftback Ehsan Hajsafi will miss Iran&#8217;s World Cup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":22462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23206","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":3349,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23206","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=23206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}