{"id":28244,"date":"2017-05-31T21:07:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T04:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28244"},"modified":"2017-05-31T21:07:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T04:07:11","slug":"tafazolli-is-hoping-to-play-for-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/31\/tafazolli-is-hoping-to-play-for-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Tafazolli is hoping to play for Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peterborough Today &#8211; PETERBOROUGH, <strong>An international call-up for Iran is on the Ryan Tafazolli wish-list for the 2017-18 season. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 25 year-old centre-back qualifies for Iran through his parents. Tafazolli is yet to win a cap, but manager Carlos Queiroz is aware of his qualities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the Iranian coaches was due to come and watch me play against Bristol Rovers last season, but I was injured and missed the game,\u201d Tafazolli stated. \u201cI\u2019d love to play for them. but they are flying at the moment. They are the number one ranked team in Asia. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I keep playing well and I improve I will hopefully get my chance.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Tafazolli was a star of last season for Posh following a summer move from League Two side Mansfield. <\/p>\n<p>His power and quality on the ball won him a host of new admirers. He managed 38 appearances despite collecting injuries at the start and end of the campaign. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did okay,\u201d Tafazolli added. \u201cAnd the defence did okay as a whole. There were a few games last season when we leaked a few goals and we must work harder next season to get more clean sheets. More clean sheets means more wins. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was disappointing to pick up an injury early on, but I came through that and I enjoyed my first season. I played a lot of games in a row which might have contributed to the injury I collected at the end of the season. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some clever strikers like Billy Sharp in League One. You have to concentrate for the entire 90 minutes or you will get punished. That\u2019s a big difference between League One and League Two. You have to use your brain more in the higher division. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I can only grow and become stronger for next season when I also want to score more goals. I scored a few from set-pieces for Mansfield, but not so many last season when Bolton showed how important free-kicks and corners can be. Their centre-halves scored loads and next season it will be an aim of ours to get more goals from defenders. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to impose ourselves in the opposition penalty area like we do in our own penalty area.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Tafazolli scored twice for Posh last season although some statistical websites are still crediting him with a goal against Northampton that was a blatant own goal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peterborough Today &#8211; PETERBOROUGH, An international call-up for Iran is on the Ryan Tafazolli wish-list&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":6692,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28244","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=28244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}