{"id":13812,"date":"2024-06-04T09:15:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T09:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=13812"},"modified":"2024-06-04T09:15:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T09:15:16","slug":"pff-names-final-squad-for-fifa-world-cup-qualifier-matches-against-saudi-arabia-tajikistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=13812","title":{"rendered":"PFF names final squad for FIFA World Cup Qualifier matches against Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG-20240604-WA0024-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG-20240604-WA0024-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG-20240604-WA0024-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG-20240604-WA0024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG-20240604-WA0024-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG-20240604-WA0024.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad &#8211; The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) announced the final national men\u2019s squad for the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Round 2 matches against Saudi Arabia and Tajikistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan will face Saudi Arabia at the Jinnah Stadium in Islamabad on June 6 followed by an away fixture against Tajikistan on June 11 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan with Diaspora (D) players already joined the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Squad:<br>Goalkeepers: Yousuf Butt (D), Saqib Hanif and Hassan Ali<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defenders: Abdullah Iqbal (D), Mohammad Fazal (D), Haseeb Khan, Rao Omer Hayat, Mamoon Moosa, Mohammad Saddam, Waqar Ihtisham, Moin Ahmed and Abdul Rehman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Midfielders: Rahis Nabi (D), Otis Khan (D), Ali Uzair, Umair Ali, Toqeer ul Hassan, Alamgir Ghazi and Ali Zafar<br>Forwards: Imran Kayani (D), McKeal Abdulah, Fareedulah, Adeel Younas and Shayak Dost<br>Pakistan are placed in Group G with Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Tajikistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad &#8211; The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) announced the final national men\u2019s squad for the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Round 2 matches against Saudi Arabia and Tajikistan. Pakistan&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[66,411],"class_list":["post-13812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fifa-international","tag-pakistan-football-federation-pff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13814,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812\/revisions\/13814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}