{"id":42462,"date":"2021-05-24T09:02:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42462"},"modified":"2021-05-24T09:02:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T16:02:39","slug":"iran-midfielder-karimi-sidelined-with-groin-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/05\/24\/iran-midfielder-karimi-sidelined-with-groin-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran midfielder Karimi sidelined with groin injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran national football team midfielder Ali Karimi will miss the 2022 World Cup qualification due to a groin injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Al Duhail player is in Tehran now to repair his injured groin and cannot accompany Iran at the competition in Bahrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karimi\u2019s absence will be a huge blow to Dragan Skocic\u2019s team since the player has been in sensational form in the current season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a>He is expected to be sidelined for a month.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will travel to Bahrain on May 31 to Manama to participate at the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018Persian Leopards\u2019 will meet Hong Kong, Bahrain, Cambodia and Iraq, respectively in the qualification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran are third with six points in their group of five, but have a game in hand over their opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq are top on 11 points, with Bahrain second on nine after five matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Iran national football team midfielder Ali Karimi will miss the 2022&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":470,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42462","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=42462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42464,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42462\/revisions\/42464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}