{"id":28613,"date":"2017-07-16T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28613"},"modified":"2017-07-16T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T19:00:27","slug":"mohammadreza-akhbari-wants-to-be-irans-no-1-at-the-2018-wc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/07\/16\/mohammadreza-akhbari-wants-to-be-irans-no-1-at-the-2018-wc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammadreza Akhbari wants to be Iran\u2019s No.1 at the 2018 WC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Saipa goalkeeper Mohammadreza Akhbari is dreaming of wearing Iran&#8217;s No. 1 jersey in the 2018 World Cup in Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Akhbari, who was a member of IranU-23 football team from 2014 to 2016, played his first match for the senior team on 8 June 2016 in a friendly with Kyrgyzstan, coming as a substitute of first choice Alireza Haghighi in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Akhbari has an uphill task ahead since Team Melli have yet to concede a goal in eight matches with Alireza Beiranvand in the goal.<\/p>\n<p>Iran became the second team to qualify for the 2018 World Cup by beating Uzbekistan 2-0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a member of Iran national team is a great honor and I am proud of that. I am so happy I\u2019ve been invited to Team Melli for the last two years. I want to do my best to increase my chance of being invited to the national team once again,\u201d the 24-year-old goalie told Iran\u2019s Varzesh 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s every player&#8217;s dream to play at a World Cup and I will do my best to wear No.1 jersey in the 2018 World Cup. I hope my dream will come true,\u201d Akhbari added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Saipa goalkeeper Mohammadreza Akhbari is dreaming of wearing Iran&#8217;s No. 1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,91,165,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":7289,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28613","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=28613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}