Tehran Times – TEHRAN, Iran football team head coach Amir Ghalenoei has called up 18 players from the domestic league for the national team\u2019s upcoming FIFA international window, with Iran set to face Uzbekistan and Russia in friendly matches.<\/p>\n
The initial squad contains no overseas-based players.<\/p>\n
The squad also includes a few notable surprises, which could attract plenty of attention ahead of the two friendlies.<\/p>\n
Domestic League Call Ups:<\/strong><\/p>\n Alireza Beiranvand (Tractor) Iranian strikers Mehdi Taremi (Al Wasl), Sardar Azmoun (Shabab Al Ahli) and Alireza Jahanbakhsh (Excelsior) are expected to be added to the national team list.<\/p>\n Team Melli\u2019s training camp officially started on Sept. 16 at the National Football Centre. The players will then leave Tehran on Sept. 22, heading for the Uzbek city of Fergana.<\/p>\n Iran will take on Uzbekistan in a friendly on Sept. 24. Following the match, the Iranian squad will travel to Kazan, Russia, on Sept. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tehran Times – TEHRAN, Iran football team head coach Amir Ghalenoei has called up 18…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":55375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":103,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55378","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=55378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55379,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55378\/revisions\/55379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHossein Hosseini (Sepahan)
\nPayam Niazmand (Persepolis)
\nMohammad Naderi (Tractor)
\nEhsan Haji Safi (Sepahan)
\nShoja Khalilzadeh (Tractor)
\nMohammadmehdi Zarei (Persepolis)
\nAref Aghasi (Esteghlal)
\nSaman Fallah (Esteghlal)
\nSaleh Hardani (Esteghlal)
\nRamin Rezaeian (Foolad)
\nAria Yousefi (Sepahan)
\nAref Hajieidi (Sepahan)
\nOmid Noorafkan (Sepahan)
\nMehdi Limouchi (Sepahan)
\nMehdi Mohammadi (Persepolis)
\nAmirhossein Mahmoudi (Persepolis)
\nMilad Sourgi (Shams Azar)<\/p>\n