{"id":27509,"date":"2017-03-15T17:51:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T00:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27509"},"modified":"2017-03-15T17:51:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T00:51:53","slug":"iran-squad-named-for-world-cup-qualifiers-against-qatar-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/15\/iran-squad-named-for-world-cup-qualifiers-against-qatar-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran squad named for World Cup Qualifiers against Qatar, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Carlos Queiroz has named his 19-man Iran squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification tournament with Qatar and China in Group A.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will play Qatar on March 23 in Doha and host China five days later in Tehran&#8217;s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p> Team Melli has been drawn along with South Korea, Uzbekistan, China, Qatar and Syria in Group A of the third round of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Asian powerhouse Japan has been pitted against Australia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Thailand in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>The winner and runner-up of each group (four teams in total) will qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, while the third-placed teams of each group (two teams in total) will head to the play-off round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the Asian play-off round will then face twice the fourth-placed squad in the fifth round of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) qualifying games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran squad (Domestic players):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Alireza Beiranvand, Rashid Mazaheri, Mohammadreza Akhbari<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Vouria Ghafouri, Ramin Rezaeian, Jalal Hosseini, Morteza Pouraliganji, Ezatollah Pourghaz, Mohammad Ansari, Pejman Montazeri<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Ehsan Haji Safi, Omid Ebrahimi, Mehdi Torabi, Morteza Tabrizi, Sasan Ansari, Ezatolah Pourghaz<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strikers:<\/strong> Vahid Amiri, Mehdi Taremi and Ehsan Pahlevan<\/p>\n<p>*The Iranian foreign-based players will be added to the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Carlos Queiroz has named his 19-man Iran squad for the 2018&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":5877,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509","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=27509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}