{"id":37387,"date":"2019-08-31T04:36:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T11:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37387"},"modified":"2019-08-31T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T11:36:09","slug":"wcq-iran-squad-named-for-hong-kong-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/08\/31\/wcq-iran-squad-named-for-hong-kong-match\/","title":{"rendered":"WCQ: Iran squad named for Hong Kong match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran coach Marc Wilmots has named a 23-man squad for the match against Hong Kong at the 2022 FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup China 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli will start the campaign with a match against Hong Kong on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran iconic attacking midfielder Saman Ghoddos, who currently plays \nin French club Amiens, is a big absent after he was suspended for four \nmonths by FIFA for failing to honor an agreement to join Huesca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran have been drawn in Group C alongside Iraq, Bahrain, Cambodia and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eight group winners and four best runners-up will advance to the \nAFC Asian Cup China 2023 Finals and the final round of qualifying for \nthe FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next best 24 teams from the second round of the joint qualifiers \nwill compete in a separate competition for the remaining 12 slots in the\n 24-team AFC Asian Cup China 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Iran Squad<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers<\/strong>: Alireza Beiranvand (Persepolis), Hossein Hosseini (Esteghlal), Rashid Mazaheri (Tractor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Defenders<\/strong>: Ramin Rezaeian (Al-Shahania SC), Majid \nHosseini (Trabzonspor), Milad Mohammadi (Gent), Vouria Ghafouri \n(Esteghlal), Mohammadhossein Kananizadegan (Persepolis), Siavash Yazdani\n (Esteghlal), Morteza Pouraliganji (Al-Arabi), Mohammad Naderi \n(Persepolis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Omid Ebrahimi (Al Ahli, Qatar), Masoud \nShojaei (Tractor), Ahmad Nourollahi (Persepolis), Ali Karimi \n(Esteghlal), Vahid Amiri (Persepolis), Ehsan Hai Safi (Tractor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Strikers:&nbsp;<\/strong> Mehdi Taremi (Rio Ave), Sardar Azmoun \n(Zenit), Karim Ansarifard (Al-Sailiya), Mehdi Torabi (Persepolis), \nAllahyar Sayyadmanesh (Fenerbahce), Alireza Jahanbakhsh (Brighton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran coach Marc Wilmots has named a 23-man squad for the match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":3181,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37387","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37389,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37387\/revisions\/37389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}