{"id":53007,"date":"2025-03-17T15:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53007"},"modified":"2025-03-17T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:43:16","slug":"wcq-2026-team-melli-squad-list-announced-for-uzbekistan-and-uae-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/03\/17\/wcq-2026-team-melli-squad-list-announced-for-uzbekistan-and-uae-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"WCQ 2026: Team Melli squad list announced for Uzbekistan and UAE matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team head coach Amir Ghalenoei has named his squad list for the two upcoming matches 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Uzbekistan and the UAE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran will host the UAE on March 20 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium and play Uzbekistan at the same stadium five days later.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli sit top of Group A with 16 points, three points above Uzbekistan. The UAE are third with 10 points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran squad:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Payam Niazmand, Mohammad Khalifeh, Alireza Beiranvand, Hossein Hosseini<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders: <\/strong>Milad Mohammadi, Omid Noorafkan, Ali Nemati, Dania Iri, Mohammadhossein Kananizadegan, Amin Hazbavi, Arya Yousefi, Shoja Khalilzadeh, Saleh Hardani<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Mohammad Mohebbi, Mehdi Ghaedi, Saman Ghoddos, Saeid Ezatolahi, Mohammad Ghorbani, Mohammad Karimi, Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Ali Gholizadeh, Rouzbeh Cheshmi, Amir Mohammad Razzaghinia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards:<\/strong> Mehdi Taremi, Javad Hosseinnejad, Ali Alipour, Sardar Azmoun, Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team head coach Amir Ghalenoei has named his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53007","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":4522,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53007","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=53007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53008,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53007\/revisions\/53008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}