{"id":38295,"date":"2019-12-30T10:12:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T18:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38295"},"modified":"2019-12-30T10:12:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T18:12:01","slug":"iran-squad-list-released-for-afc-u23-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/12\/30\/iran-squad-list-released-for-afc-u23-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran squad list released for AFC U23 Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran coach Hamid Estili has named his 23-man squad for the AFC U23 Championship Thailand 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rising star Younes Delfi has been dropped from the list after Belgian side Charleroi don\u2019t let him to leave the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Squad:<br \/><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong>&nbsp;Meraj Esmaeili (Zob Ahan), Habib Abbasifar (Naft Masjed Soleyman), Mehdi Nourollahi (Saipa)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong>&nbsp;Mehran Derakhshan Mehr (Zob Ahan), Omid Noorafkan (Sepahan), Aref Aghasi (Foolad), Shahin Taherkhani (Esteghlal), Mojtaba Najjarian (Foolad), Hossein Saki (Sanat naft), Matin Karimzadeh (Pars Jonoubi)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong>&nbsp;Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh (Saipa), Jafar Salmani (Sanat Naft), Sina Zamehran (Shahr Khodro), Mohammad Khodabandehloo (Paykan), Mehdi Mehdikhani (Vara\u017edin), Reza Dehghani (Nassaji)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Forwards:&nbsp;<\/strong>Mohammad Mohebbi (Sepahan), Mehdi Ghaedi (Esteghlal), Reza Jabireh (Sanat Naft), Ali Shojaei (Nassaji), Amir Roostaei (Persepolis), Reza Shekari (Tractor), Allahyar Sayyadmanesh (\u0130stanbulspor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will kick off their 2020 campaign against holders Uzbekistan in Songkhla on January 9, with matches against South Korea and China PR to follow in an intriguing Group C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition will be held in Thailand from Jan. 8 to 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top three teams qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in July, although should Japan emerge as one of them, the fourth-placed side will advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran have not been in the Olympics since the 1976 games in Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran coach Hamid Estili has named his 23-man squad for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,92,139,156,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-irans-u23","category-olympics","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":955,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38295","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=38295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38297,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38295\/revisions\/38297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}