{"id":27533,"date":"2017-03-19T04:36:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T11:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27533"},"modified":"2017-03-19T04:36:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T11:36:21","slug":"final-team-melli-squad-for-qatar-and-china-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/19\/final-team-melli-squad-for-qatar-and-china-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Team Melli squad for Qatar and China announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>On Saturday, Carlos Queiroz announced his final 23-man-squad for the upcoming vital clashes in Qatar and against China in World Cup qualifying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before, already a preliminary domestic list had been announced and extended by 10 foreign based players after a short training camp and a friendly match behind closed doors versus Iraq, which Iran lost 0-1 due to a second half penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Noteable absentees from the foreign legion are injured playmaker Ashkan Dejagah of Vfl Wolfsburg as well as Scandinavian based goalkeepers Sousha Makani and Alireza Haghighi, who both didn&#8217;t play a competitive game in 2017 yet.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile NK Lokomotiva Zagreb midfielder Ali Karimi and Foolad Khuzestan&#8217;s attacker Sassan Ansari, somewhat surprisingly, made the final list.<\/p>\n<p>Below comes to full squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Alireza Beiranvand (Persepolis), Mohammad-Reza Akhbari (Tractor Sazi), Rashid Mazaheri (Zob Ahan)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Ramin Rezaeian (Persepolis), Vouria Ghafouri (Esteghlal), Jalal Hosseini (Perspolis), Pejman Montazeri (Al Ahli, QAT), Morteza Pouraliganji (Al Sadd, QAT), Ezatollah Pourghaz (Saipa), Milad Mohammadi (Terek Grozny, RUS), Mohammad Ansari (Persepolis)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Ehsan Hajsafi (Sepahan), Saeid Ezatollahi (Anzhi Makhachkala, RUS), Ali Karimi (Lokomotiva Zagreb, CRO), Omid Ebrahimi (Esteghlal), Masoud Shojaei (Panionios, GRE)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards:<\/strong> Sardar Azmoun (FK Rostov, RUS), Reza Ghoochannejhad (SC Heerenveen, NED), Karim Ansarifard (Olympiacos, GRE), Mehdi Taremi (Persepolis), Alireza Jahanbakhsh (AZ Alkmaar, NED), Vahid Amiri (Persepolis), Sasan Ansari (Foolad Khuzestan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, On Saturday, Carlos Queiroz announced his final 23-man-squad for the upcoming vital&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":26716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-world-cup"],"views":6491,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27533","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=27533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}