{"id":25821,"date":"2016-08-12T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T17:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25821"},"modified":"2016-08-12T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T17:27:04","slug":"queiroz-calls-up-25-players-for-italy-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/08\/12\/queiroz-calls-up-25-players-for-italy-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz calls up 25 players for Italy camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team head coach Carlos Queiroz has invited 25 players for a preparatory camp in Italy ahead of 2018 World Cup qualifications matches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The team will fly to Italy on Saturday to hold a 12-day camp in Coverciano.<\/p>\n<p>Coverciano, also known as Casa Italia, located in the quartier of Florence with the same name, is the central training ground and technical headquarters of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC).<\/p>\n<p>The Coverciano is the primary training ground for all Italy national football teams from the U-15 age group and above (including women&#8217;s), as well as the Italian Armed Forces&#8217; representative football team. Occasionally it has hosted foreign teams visiting Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz men will take on newly promoted Serie B side SPAL on August 19 while they will face Serie B youth XI team four days later.<\/p>\n<p>The Persians will play Qatar in the first game of 2018 World Cup qualification third round on September 1 while they have to face China five days later in Shenyang, more than 6,000 kilometer away.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn in Group A of the World Cup qualification along with Uzbekistan, China, Qatar and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The winner and runner-up of each group (four teams in total) will qualify for the Russia 2018, while the third-placed teams of each group will advance to the Asian play-off.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the Asian play-off will face the side that finishes fourth in the fifth round of the CONCACAF qualifiers in a two-leg inter-confederation playoff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeeper:<\/strong> Alireza Beyranvand, Mohammadreza Akhbari, Rashid Mazaheri.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Seyyed Jalal Hosseini, Pejman Montazeri, Morteza Pourali Ganji, Mohammad Tayyebi, Ehsan Hajsafi, Ramin Rezaeian, Pourya Ghafouri, Saeid Aghaei, and Mohammad Ansari.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Andranik Teymourian, Kamal Kamyabinia, Darioush Shojaeian, Omid Ebrahimi, and Ezzatollah Pourghaz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards:<\/strong> Ashkan Dejagah, Rahim Zahivi, Mehdi Torabi, Vahid Amiri, Mehdi Taromi, Ehsan Pahlavan, Soroush Rafiei, and Morteza Tabrizi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team head coach Carlos Queiroz has invited 25&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":3121,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}