{"id":37440,"date":"2019-09-05T19:56:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T02:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37440"},"modified":"2019-09-05T19:56:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T02:56:53","slug":"dejagah-invited-to-join-team-melli-as-taremi-drops-out-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/09\/05\/dejagah-invited-to-join-team-melli-as-taremi-drops-out-with-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Dejagah invited to join Team Melli as Taremi drops out with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran captain Ashkan Dejagah has been invited to join the national team after Mehdi Taremi drops out due to injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marc Wilmots had earlier named his 23-man Iran squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Hong Kong, slated for August 31 but Dejagah was not among the invited players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilmots called up Dejagah to Team Melli on Tuesday for the Hong Kong match in leue of the injured Mehdi Taremi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taremi suffered a foot injury in the match against Sporting Lisbon and Iran coaching staff decided to travel to Hong Kong without the Rio Ave striker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will play Hong Kong at Hong Kong Stadium on September 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli is pitted with Iraq, Bahrain, Cambodia and Hong Kong in Group C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eight group winners and four best runners-up will advance to the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Finals and the final round of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran captain Ashkan Dejagah has been invited to join the national team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,89,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1590,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440","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=37440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37442,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440\/revisions\/37442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}