{"id":33681,"date":"2018-10-09T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33681"},"modified":"2018-10-09T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T17:31:09","slug":"iran-striker-azmoun-comes-out-of-retirement-joins-team-melli-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/10\/09\/iran-striker-azmoun-comes-out-of-retirement-joins-team-melli-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran striker Azmoun comes out of retirement, joins Team Melli camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> Iran international striker Sardar Azmoun came out of retirement after he participated in Team Melli training camp in Tehran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old forward had announced his retirement from international football shortly after the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Azmoun had decided to quit the national team because insults aimed at him during the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Iran were knocked out of the World Cup with a win over Morocco, a defeat against Spain and a draw with Portugal in their three Group B matches, and Azmoun, Iran\u2019s top scorer in qualifying, did not replicate his best form in Russia, where he failed to score a single goal.<\/p>\n<p>The most promising young talent in Iran\u2019s national setup, Azmoun represented the country at youth level before moving to Russian Premier League side Rubin Kazan at 18.<\/p>\n<p>Azmoun was invited to Team Melli for the friendly match against Uzbekistan in September but had not accepted to represent Iran.  <\/p>\n<p>Carlos Queiroz is going to end Iran\u2019s 43-year wait to become champions of Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran international striker Sardar Azmoun came out of retirement after he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,89,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1954,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33681","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=33681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33683,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33681\/revisions\/33683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}