{"id":37923,"date":"2019-11-09T17:18:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T01:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37923"},"modified":"2019-11-09T17:18:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T01:18:37","slug":"team-melli-squad-announced-for-iraq-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/11\/09\/team-melli-squad-announced-for-iraq-world-cup-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli squad announced for Iraq World Cup Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Marc Wilmots has named his 23-man squad for the forthcoming international against Iraq at the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar and AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Asian Qualifiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will face Iraq on Nev. 14 at the Amman International Stadium in Amman, Jordan in Group C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brighton winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Eupen midfielder Saeid Ezatolahi have been dropped from Team Melli since they could not keep places in their teams\u2019 starting XI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group will meet up at Iran football\u2019s camp on Sunday in preparation for the important match against Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli 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 AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Finals and the final round of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next best 24 teams from the second round of the joint qualifiers will compete in a separate competition for the remaining 12 slots in the 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), Rashid Mazaheri (Tractor), Payam Niazmand (Sepahan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Defenders<\/strong>: Ramin Rezaeian (Al-Shahania SC), Majid Hosseini (Trabzonspor), Milad Mohammadi (Gent), Siavash Yazdani (Esteghlal), Mohammadhossein Kananizadegan (Persepolis), Morteza Pouraliganji (Al-Arabi), Mohammad Naderi (Persepolis), Vouria Ghafouri (Esteghlal)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong>&nbsp;Omid Ebrahimi (Al Ahli, Qatar), Masoud Shojaei (Tractor), Ahmad Nourollahi (Persepolis), Ali Karimi (Esteghlal), Vahid Amiri (Persepolis), Ehsan Haji Safi (Tractor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Strikers:&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;Mehdi Taremi (Rio Ave), Sardar Azmoun (Zenit), Karim Ansarifard (Al-Sailiya), Mohammad Mohebbi (Sepahan), Ali Gholizadeh (Charleroi), Kaveh Rezaei (Charleroi)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Marc Wilmots has named his 23-man squad for the forthcoming international&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37923","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-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2182,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37923","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=37923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37925,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37923\/revisions\/37925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}