{"id":31165,"date":"2018-03-18T09:45:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31165"},"modified":"2018-03-18T09:45:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T16:45:37","slug":"masoud-shojaei-receives-call-up-returns-to-team-melli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/03\/18\/masoud-shojaei-receives-call-up-returns-to-team-melli\/","title":{"rendered":"Masoud Shojaei receives call-up, returns to Team Melli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team midfielder Masoud Shojaei has been invited to Team Melli after more than seven months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shojaei was left out of Iran squad from early August after playing against an Israeli club with Panionios in UEFA Europa League.<\/p>\n<p>Iran does not recognize Israel and bars its athletes from competing against participants from the country.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz has named his 28-man team for two warm-up matches against Tunisia and Algeria and Shojaei has been included in the team.<\/p>\n<p>Iran prepare for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, where they have been drawn with Spain, Morocco and Portugal in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will open the campaign with a match against Morocco at Saint Petersburg on June 15.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, meanwhile, face Spain in Kazan on 20 June before meeting Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s Portugal in Saransk five days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team midfielder Masoud Shojaei has been invited to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31165","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"],"views":3227,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165","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=31165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31167,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165\/revisions\/31167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}