{"id":32201,"date":"2018-06-04T09:20:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32201"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:43:09","slug":"irans-world-cup-squad-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/04\/irans-world-cup-squad-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s World Cup squad announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; MOSCOW, <strong>Iran&#8217;s official 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup has been announced on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite a lot of rumours that one of the stand-by players &#8211; Hossein Hosseini, Jalal Hosseini, Vouria Ghafouri and Kaveh Rezaei &#8211; would make a surprise return to the squad, Queiroz kept 23 of his previously announced 24-man roster and only dropped youngster Ali Gholizadeh as surplus player.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old winger, who just signed with Belgian club Charleroi, will, however, accompany the rest of the squad to the final training camp in Russia, and would be the first candidate to replace an injured player.<\/p>\n<p>With 12 European based players it is the highest amount of legionnaires from the strongest football contintent in an Iranian World Cup squad ever, doubling the number in comparison to the two previous appearances in 2014 and 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play a final friendly match versus Lithuania behind closed doors on Friday, before they will face Morocco in their first game at the 2018 World Cup finals.<\/p>\n<p>Below comes the full squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong><br \/>\nAlireza Beiranvand \u2013 Persepolis<br \/>\nRashid Mazaheri \u2013 Zob Ahan<br \/>\nAmir Abedzadeh \u2013 Maritimo, POR<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong><br \/>\nRamin Rezaeian \u2013 Oostende, BEL<br \/>\nMohammad-Reza Khanzadeh \u2013 Padideh<br \/>\nMorteza Pouraliganji \u2013 Al Sadd, QAT<br \/>\nPejman Montazeri \u2013 Esteghlal<br \/>\nRouzbeh Cheshmi \u2013 Esteghlal<br \/>\nMajid Hosseini \u2013 Esteghlal<br \/>\nMilad Mohammadi \u2013 FC Akhmat, RUS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong><br \/>\nSaeid Ezatollahi \u2013 Amkar, RUS<br \/>\nEhsan Hajsafi \u2013 Olympiacos, GRE<br \/>\nOmid Ebrahimi \u2013 Esteghlal<br \/>\nMasoud Shojaei \u2013 AEK Athens, GRE<br \/>\nAshkan Dejagah \u2013 Nottingham Forest, ENG<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wingers:<\/strong><br \/>\nAlireza Jahanbakhsh \u2013 AZ Alkmaar, NED<br \/>\nMehdi Taremi \u2013 Al Gharaffa, QAT<br \/>\nSaman Ghoddos \u2013 Oestersunds, SWE<br \/>\nVahid Amiri \u2013 Persepolis<br \/>\nMehdi Torabi \u2013 Saipa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strikers:<\/strong><br \/>\nSadar Azmoun \u2013 Rubin Kazan, RUS<br \/>\nKarim Ansarifard \u2013 Olympiacos, GRE<br \/>\nReza Ghoochannejhad \u2013 Heerenveen, NED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; MOSCOW, Iran&#8217;s official 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":32185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2486,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32202,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201\/revisions\/32202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}