{"id":44821,"date":"2022-01-25T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T19:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=44821"},"modified":"2022-01-25T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T19:46:34","slug":"2022-wcqs-four-team-melli-players-test-positive-for-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/01\/25\/2022-wcqs-four-team-melli-players-test-positive-for-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 WCQs: Four Team Melli players test positive for Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Four members of the Iran national football team have tested positive for COVID-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran captain Ehsan Hajsafi and defender Majid Hosseini have contracted the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli forward Sardar Azmoun and midfielder Ahmad Nourollahi had&nbsp;previously tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran is scheduled to meet Iraq on Thursday in the 2022 World Cup qualifier in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli will qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the third time in a row with a win over Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Four members of the Iran national football team have tested positive for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":44822,"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-44821","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":2116,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44821","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=44821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44823,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44821\/revisions\/44823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}