{"id":14118,"date":"2018-06-30T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=14118"},"modified":"2018-07-01T06:46:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T21:46:40","slug":"iran-forwards-retire-from-international-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/06\/30\/iran-forwards-retire-from-international-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran forwards Sardar Azmoun and Reza Ghouchannejad retire from international football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran national team strikers Sardar Azmoun and Reza Ghouchannejad announce their retirement from international football after <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/06\/26\/carlos-queiroz-slams-var-system-following-irans-group-stage-exit\/\">Team Melli\u2019s elimination<\/a> from 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Azmoun, 24, who has been Iran first-choice striker at the World Cup Russia, has been faced with many criticisms for his performance in Russia, so he decided to leave Team Melli.<\/p>\n<p>However, he admitted in his statement that it\u2019s possible to change his mind in future.<\/p>\n<p>But the situation for Reza Ghouchannejad was different and he decided to retire after ended the World cup as an unused substitute.<\/p>\n<p>Reza Ghouchannejad, 31, who scored Iran only goal at 2014 World cup didn\u2019t find a chance to increase his tally in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran national team strikers Sardar Azmoun and Reza Ghouchannejad announce their retirement from international football after Team Melli\u2019s elimination from 2018 World Cup. Azmoun, 24, who has been Iran first-choice striker at the World Cup Russia, has been faced with many criticisms for his performance in Russia, so he decided to leave Team Melli. However, he admitted in his statement that it\u2019s possible to change his mind in future. But the situation for Reza Ghouchannejad was different and he decided to retire after ended the World cup as an unused substitute. Reza Ghouchannejad, 31, who scored Iran only goal at 2014 World cup didn\u2019t find a chance to increase his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/06\/30\/iran-forwards-retire-from-international-football\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Iran forwards Sardar Azmoun and Reza Ghouchannejad retire from international football&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":14119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,41],"tags":[637,85,1592,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}