{"id":54360,"date":"2026-01-04T19:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54360"},"modified":"2026-01-04T19:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:03:22","slug":"afc-hosseinnejhad-among-continents-rising-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/01\/04\/afc-hosseinnejhad-among-continents-rising-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC: Hosseinnejhad among Continent\u2019s Rising Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>With just two days remaining until the seventh edition of AFC U-23 Asian Cup kicks off, squads featuring the continent\u2019s rising stars have been revealed and the-AFC.com highlights one player per team to look out for.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Javad Hosseinnejhad of Iran is one of two players in the Iran squad who plays his club football abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Hosseinnejhad has been pivotal for Dynamo Makhachkala in the Russian Premier League and also contributed two goals for Iran in the Qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The Young Team Melli will open its campaign on January 7 with a high-profile match against South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Omid Ravankhah\u2019s team will also play Uzbekistan and South Korea on January 10 and 13, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 AFC U-23 Asian Cup will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from January 6 to 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, With just two days remaining until the seventh edition of AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,175,84,212,93,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-iranian-legionnaires","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":877,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54360","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=54360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54362,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54360\/revisions\/54362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}