{"id":30401,"date":"2018-01-14T13:01:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T21:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30401"},"modified":"2018-01-14T13:01:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T21:01:48","slug":"reza-ghoochannejhad-dreams-of-playing-at-his-second-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/01\/14\/reza-ghoochannejhad-dreams-of-playing-at-his-second-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Reza Ghoochannejhad dreams of playing at his second World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; HEERENVEEN, <strong>Reza Ghoochannejhad says his dream will be fulfilled if he plays for Team Melli in the World Cup for the second time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghoochannejhad represented Iran in the 2014 World Cup and scored his side&#8217;s only goal against Bosnia-Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p>He had already scored the winner against South Korea in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifierhasUlsan.<\/p>\n<p>Iran have been drawn along with Spain, Portugal and Morocco in Group B of the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I can play at my second World Cup, you can say that I have fulfilled all my dreams,&#8221; he told Leeuwarden Courant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut nobody knows what will happen and where I end up. As long as I am fit, I continue playing football. As a top athlete you always want more. If there is no challenge, you have to stop,\u201d Ghoochannejhad added.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian international midfielder, whose contract expires at the end of this season, says he is going to stay at Heerenveen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started a project and I really want to finish it in a good way. I could have gone to China but I preferred to stay in Heerenveen. If you know how much I could have earned there, then you made fun of me. I want to continue at Heerenveen, the club that trained me,\u201d Ghoochannejhad concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; HEERENVEEN, Reza Ghoochannejhad says his dream will be fulfilled if he plays&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1037,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30401","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=30401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}