{"id":28847,"date":"2017-08-22T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28847"},"modified":"2017-08-22T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T21:14:10","slug":"saman-ghoddos-interested-in-joining-team-melli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/08\/22\/saman-ghoddos-interested-in-joining-team-melli\/","title":{"rendered":"Saman Ghoddos interested in joining Team Melli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; \u00d6STERSUNDS, <strong>Iranian-Swedish midfielder Saman Ghoddos has reportedly given the green light to Iran Football Federation to join Team Melli.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old, who scored for his side \u00d6stersund FK during Europa League qualification against Turkish giant Galatasaray, has played in two friendly matches for Sweden and scored a goal but he is still eligible to play for Iran.<\/p>\n<p> Ghoddos has now applied for Iranian citizenship and it seems he is going to choose Iran national football team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s nothing I can answer now. It&#8217;s still 50-50 for me. But as I said before, there is only one national team that shows interest right now,\u201d Ghoddos said in an interview with SportExpressen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will always love Sweden. I\u2019ve grown up here. It is an honor to live here and to represent Sweden. At the same time, my parents are Iranian. I have Persian blood in my body. I love Iran too,\u201d said Ghoddos.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2016, Ghoddos was called up by Sweden manager Janne Andersson for friendlies against Ivory Coast and Slovakia. He scored his first international goal for Sweden in a 6\u20130 win over Slovakia on 12 January 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; \u00d6STERSUNDS, Iranian-Swedish midfielder Saman Ghoddos has reportedly given the green light to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28847","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":6580,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28847","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=28847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}