{"id":29132,"date":"2017-09-19T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29132"},"modified":"2017-09-19T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:30:09","slug":"i-will-fight-for-my-place-with-ashkan-dejagah-saman-ghoddos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/09\/19\/i-will-fight-for-my-place-with-ashkan-dejagah-saman-ghoddos\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I will fight for my place with Ashkan Dejagah&#8221;: Saman Ghoddos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; \u00d6STERSUND, <strong>Iranian-Swedish midfielder Saman Ghoddos says that he will fight for his place in Team Melli starting line up with Ashkan Dejagah.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghoddos was invited to Iran national football team in the match against South Korea in the 2018 World Cup qualifier but didn\u2019t play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian football federation asked me to join Team Melli\u2019s preparatory camp in late September but I have to play in Europa League match with Ostersunds FK. I will join the Iranian national team in Russia in October,\u201d Ghoddos said in an interview with SvenskaFans.com.<\/p>\n<p>Ghoddos says he was treated well by everyone in Iran national football team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I met them for the first time I saw so many talented players in Team Melli. Everything was professionally managed there. The players treated me well, I immediately felt like part of a big family,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAshkan Dejagah was one of the players who took good care of me, and everyone treated me well. Ashkan is my main rival in Team Melli but I will fight for a place with him. It\u2019s normal in football. We are friends outside the pitch but we are competing for a place at the field,\u201d the 24-year-old stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be a member of main team in the 2018 World Cup but I am well aware I will have a difficult job ahead of me. It&#8217;s a dream come true to play with the best teams in the world,\u201d Ghoddos concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; \u00d6STERSUND, Iranian-Swedish midfielder Saman Ghoddos says that he will fight for his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29132","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":4994,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29132","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=29132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}