{"id":50886,"date":"2024-03-18T11:02:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=50886"},"modified":"2024-03-18T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:02:18","slug":"2026-wcq-ffiri-announce-iran-squad-to-face-turkmenistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/03\/18\/2026-wcq-ffiri-announce-iran-squad-to-face-turkmenistan\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WCQ: FFIRI announce Iran squad to face Turkmenistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team head coach Amir Ghalenoei has called up 29 players for two matches against Turkmenistan in Group E of the Preliminary Joint Qualification &#8211; Round 2 for the FIFA World Cup 2026 and the AFC Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2027.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli are scheduled to host Turkmenistan on March 21 in Tehran and play the team five days later at the Ashgabat Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Iran sit top of the group with four points out of two matches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong><br \/>\nAlireza Beiranvand, Payam Niazmand, Hossein Hosseini, Arsha Shakouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong><br \/>\nShoja Khalilzadeh, Mohammadhossein Kanaanizadegan, Amin Hazbavi, Saman Fallah, Ramin Rezaeian, Saleh Hardani, Milad Mohammadi, Abolfazl Jalali, Hossein Goudarzi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong><br \/>\nOmid Noorafkan, Saman Ghoddos, Saeid Ezatolahi, Mohammad Ghorbani, Ali Gholizadeh, Allahyar Sayyadmanesh, Mehdi Limoochi, Mohammad Mohebi, Mehdi Ghaedi, Mehdi Torabi, Alireza Jahanbakhsh<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strikers:<\/strong><br \/>\nMehdi Taremi, Javad Aghaeipour, Sardar Azmoun, Mohammadreza Azadi, Saeid Saharkhizan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team head coach Amir Ghalenoei has called up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":50887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1438,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50886","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=50886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50888,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50886\/revisions\/50888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}