{"id":44798,"date":"2022-01-23T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=44798"},"modified":"2022-01-23T07:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:05:16","slug":"skocic-names-team-melli-squad-for-iraq-and-uae-wcqs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/01\/23\/skocic-names-team-melli-squad-for-iraq-and-uae-wcqs\/","title":{"rendered":"Skocic names Team Melli squad for Iraq and UAE WCQs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic announced his 27-man list for Iraq and the UAE matches in the 2022 World Cup qualification Round 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will host Iraq in Group A in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Thursday. The \u2018Persian Leopards\u2019 will also host the UAE five days later. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea and Lebanon are also in the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the third time in a row with a win over Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group B consists of Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, China, and Oman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group winners and runners-up will qualify for the 2022 World Cup. The third team will play a two-legged playoff. The winners then advance to an inter-confederation playoff, to be played in June 2022.<br \/><br \/><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong><br \/>Alireza Beiranvand, Amir Abedzadeh, Payam Niazmand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong><br \/>Shoja Khalilzadeh, Hossein Kanaanizadegan, Milad Mohammadi, Omid Noorafkan, Sadegh Moharami, Saleh Hardani, Siavash Yazdani, Majid Hosseini<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong><br \/>Milad Sarlak, Ahmad Nourollahi, Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Saeid Ezatolahi, Vahid Amiri, Saman Ghoddos, Mehdi Torabi, Ali Gholizadeh, Ehsan Hajisafi, Allahyar Sayyadmanesh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Strikers:<\/strong><br \/>Karim Ansarifard, Sardar Azmoun, Mehdi Taremi, Mehdi Ghaedi, Shahab Zahedi, Kaveh Rezaei<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic announced his 27-man list&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":44799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44798","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-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":3262,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44798","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=44798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44800,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44798\/revisions\/44800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}