{"id":34769,"date":"2019-01-01T09:42:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T17:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34769"},"modified":"2019-01-01T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T17:42:06","slug":"afc-asian-cup-2019-10-most-capped-players-playing-in-the-tournament-ehsan-hajsafi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/01\/afc-asian-cup-2019-10-most-capped-players-playing-in-the-tournament-ehsan-hajsafi\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Asian Cup 2019: 10 most capped players playing in the tournament [Ehsan Hajsafi]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fox Sports Asia &#8211; HONG KONG, <strong>AFC Asian Cup kicks off from Jan 5th in the UAE and will feature 24 instead of the usual 16 teams, in six groups of four<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as generally the case in football, teams tend to line up with a healthy mixture of experience and youth to try and achieve the right balance of strong mentality and freshness on the pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, many of the teams have players with numerous caps to their names.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#9 Ehsan Hajsafi \u2013 101\u00a0Caps<\/strong><br \/>Iranian left back Ehsan Hajsafi plays for Persian club Tractor Sazi and was first called up by the national team in 2008. Now just 28 years old, he still has a good number of years ahead of him to move up in this list by the time the next Asian Cup swings by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports Asia &#8211; HONG KONG, AFC Asian Cup kicks off from Jan 5th in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":673,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34769","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=34769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34770,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34769\/revisions\/34770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}