{"id":32081,"date":"2018-05-29T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32081"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:18:02","slug":"saman-ghoddos-proud-to-play-for-iran-national-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/05\/29\/saman-ghoddos-proud-to-play-for-iran-national-football-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Saman Ghoddos proud to play for Iran national football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ISTANBUL, <strong>Iran international striker Saman Ghoddos says he is proud to play for his country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iranian-Swedish Ghoddos decided to wear the jersey of Iran\u2019s national football team despite being invited to play for Sweden in September.<\/p>\n<p>He had played in two friendly matches for Sweden and scored a goal.<\/p>\n<p>Ghoddos was called up for the first time to the Iran\u2019s training camps on 27 August 2017 by coach Queiroz for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches against South Korea and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>After Ghoddos couldn\u2019t make his debut for Iran due to administrative issues with FIFA, he was called into Sweden\u2019s World Cup qualification squad on 27 September for matches against Luxembourg and Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>He later told a Swedish website about his decision that he is grateful to Andersson, the head coach of Sweden, for giving him the extraordinary option, but he has made his final decision and will play for Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very happy to play for Iran national football team and there is no shame in choosing Iran over Sweden,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also wish Sweden national football team all the best and really hope they will do well at the World Cup,\u201d Ghoddos added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghoddos came off the bench to play the last 30 minutes against Turkey Monday night, where Team Mello lost 2-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ISTANBUL, Iran international striker Saman Ghoddos says he is proud to play&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,89,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1435,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081","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=32081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32083,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32081\/revisions\/32083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}