{"id":27557,"date":"2017-03-22T14:56:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27557"},"modified":"2017-03-22T14:56:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:56:06","slug":"azmoun-gucci-players-to-watch-against-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/22\/azmoun-gucci-players-to-watch-against-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Azmoun, Gucci, players to watch against Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iranian strikers Sardar Azmoun and Reza Ghoochannejhad are \u2018Players to Watch\u2019 against Qatar football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will face Qatar in Doha\u2019s Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in Asia&#8217;s third qualifying round for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Young Sardar Azmoun may be Iran&#8217;s top-scorer in this qualifying campaign with eight goals. However, the experience of Reza Ghoochannejhad can&#8217;t be understated considering his major contribution in firing Team Melli to Brazil 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Despite starting on the bench, the 29-year-old forward showed a glimpse of his genius by coming on and breaking the deadlock against Qatar with an injury-time strike, which set them on the road to a 2-0 win, fifa.com wrote.  <\/p>\n<p>After returning to Dutch club Heerenveen last June, Gucci has shown improved form, scoring over a dozen goals. He became the first Iranian to score a hat-trick in a top-flight European league when he completed a treble in a 4\u20133 loss against PSV Eindhoven in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Iranian strikers Sardar Azmoun and Reza Ghoochannejhad are \u2018Players to Watch\u2019 against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,89,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4186,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557","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=27557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}