{"id":34655,"date":"2018-12-25T10:29:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T18:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34655"},"modified":"2018-12-25T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T18:29:11","slug":"saeid-ezatolahi-ruled-out-of-afc-asian-cup-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/25\/saeid-ezatolahi-ruled-out-of-afc-asian-cup-due-to-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Saeid Ezatolahi ruled out of AFC Asian Cup due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran iconic defensive midfielder Saeid Ezatolahi has been ruled out of the upcoming AFC Asian Cup tournament with a foot injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 22-year-old player suffered an injury on international duty in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ezatolahi expressed his disappointment at missing the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I feel really bad because of missing the AFC Asian Cup but I have to trust in God. It can be helpful in this difficult situation. Also, I am very sad since I cannot be at Team Melli\u2019s service as a soldier. In the 2018 World Cup, I did my best to make the Iranian people happy but I\u2019ve ruled out the Asian Cup and I cannot be a part of Team Melli,&#8221; said Ezatolahi in a post on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ezatolahi, who currently plays in English championship side Reading, was a member of Iran national football team in the 2018 World Cup against Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran have been drawn in Group D of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup alongside Vietnam, Iraq and Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli will start their journey with a match against Yemen on January 7 before facing Vietnam on January 12 and Iraq on January 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Iran iconic defensive midfielder Saeid Ezatolahi has been ruled out of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,89,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1370,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34655","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=34655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34657,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34655\/revisions\/34657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}