{"id":32543,"date":"2018-06-27T19:19:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T02:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32543"},"modified":"2018-06-27T19:19:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T02:19:44","slug":"reza-ghoochannejhad-retires-from-international-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/27\/reza-ghoochannejhad-retires-from-international-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Reza Ghoochannejhad retires from international duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team striker Reza Ghoochannejhad has retired from international duty on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghoochannejhad, nicknamed \u2018Gucci\u2019, was a member of Iran national football team in the 2018 World Cup but remained an unused substitute in three matches against Morocco, Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>He made his senior national team debut on 16 October 2012 in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against South Korea, where Team Melli edged past the Korean team 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Ghoochannejhad also scored Iran&#8217;s only goal at the 2014 World Cup against Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p>He did not play for Team Melli in Russia, while Carlos Queiroz\u2019s team lacked the cutting edge in three matches against Morocco, Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo wear Iran jersey was a dream which came true for me but I think it\u2019s time to bid farewell to Team Melli. I would also like to thank all my coaches and teammates for helping me grow as a player in the previous six years and wish them all the best,\u201d the Heerenveen striker wrote on his Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p>Ghoochannejhad won 44 caps for Iran national football team and scored 16 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team striker Reza Ghoochannejhad has retired from international&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32543","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"],"views":2649,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32543","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=32543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32545,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32543\/revisions\/32545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}