{"id":34774,"date":"2019-01-01T09:51:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T17:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34774"},"modified":"2019-01-01T09:51:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T17:51:20","slug":"defender-to-watch-at-afc-asian-cup-majid-hosseini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/01\/defender-to-watch-at-afc-asian-cup-majid-hosseini\/","title":{"rendered":"Defender to Watch at AFC Asian Cup [Majid Hosseini]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; HONG KONG, <strong>Iran international defender Majid Hosseini has been chosen by FOX Sports Asia as a defender to watch at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup<\/strong><g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/g><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\">Despite<\/g> Hosseini having won just one cap heading into the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Iran coach Carlos Queiroz had no qualms throwing him into the deep end following an injury to <g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">first-choice<\/g> center back Rouzbeh Cheshmi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Queiroz\u2019s faith proved completely justified as Hosseini more than held his own against two international giants in Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 22-year-old\u2019s composure on the ball and strength in the challenge did not go unnoticed, as it did not take long for Turkish outfit Trabzonspor to secure his services from Esteghlal in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosseini is a defender to watch in the AFC Asian Cup, where Team Melli has been drawn along with Yemen, Vietnam and Iraq in Group D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; HONG KONG, Iran international defender Majid Hosseini has been chosen by FOX Sports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":775,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774","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=34774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34776,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774\/revisions\/34776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}