{"id":24662,"date":"2016-03-19T04:36:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T11:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24662"},"modified":"2016-03-19T04:36:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T11:36:13","slug":"no-surprises-in-final-team-melli-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/03\/19\/no-surprises-in-final-team-melli-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"No surprises in final Team Melli squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran&#8217;s roster for the World Cup qualifiers versus India and Oman (March 24 and 29, both in Tehran) was announced Saturday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the only surprise in Carlos Queiroz&#8217;s final 24-men-squad is the inclusion of 23-year-old Gostaresh Foolad midfielder Dariush Shojaeian.<\/p>\n<p>Missing are goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi and captain Andranik Teymourian, who are both injured. Due to Haghighi&#8217;s injury and number 2 Alireza Beiranvand&#8217;s suspension against India, either Mohammad-Reza Akhbari or Rashid Mazaheri will debut in goal.<\/p>\n<p>Iran lead their group three points ahead of Oman, with additionally much better goal difference, and, under normal circumstances, should be able to defend the pole position with either a win against India or a draw against Oman.<\/p>\n<p>The group winner automatically qualifies for the next Asian Cup and the final round of World Cup qualifying, whereas the second placed team must be among the best runners-up of all groups to follow the first placed team.<\/p>\n<p>Below comes the full squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Alireza Beiranvand (Naft Tehran), Mohammadreza Akhbari (Tractor Sazi Tabriz), Rashid Mazaheri (Zob Ahan Esfahan)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Ramin Rezaeian (Persepolis Tehran), Vouria Ghafouri (Sepahan Esfahan), Seyed Jalal Hosseini (Naft Tehran), Pejman Montazeri (Umm-Salal, QAT), Morteza Pouraliganji (Al-Sadd, QAT), Ezatollah Pourghaz (Malavan Anzali), Ehsan Hajsafi (FSV Frankfurt, GER), Milad Mohammadi (Terek Grozny, RUS)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defensive midfielders:<\/strong> Omid Ebrahimi (Esteghlal Tehran), Saeid Ezatollahi (FK Rostov, RUS), Kamal Kamyabinia (Persepolis Tehran)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attacking midfielders:<\/strong> Ashkan Dejagah (Al-Arabi, QAT), Masoud Shojaei (Al-Gharafa, QAT), Alireza Jahanbakhsh (AZ Alkmaar, NED), Mehdi Torabi (Saipa Karaj), Dariush Shojaeian (Gostaresh Foolad), Vahid Amiri (Naft Tehran)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strikers:<\/strong> Reza Ghoochannejhad (Charlton Athletic, ENG), Sardar Azmoun (FK Rostov, RUS), Karim Ansarifard (Panionios Athens, GRE), Mehdi Taremi (Persepolis Tehran)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran&#8217;s roster for the World Cup qualifiers versus India and Oman (March&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":23289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2774,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24662","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=24662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}