{"id":148435,"date":"2026-06-06T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/148435\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:39:08","slug":"ahmed-makenzie-joins-iraqs-historic-2026-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/148435\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Makenzie Joins Iraq&#8217;s Historic 2026 World Cup Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed Hassan Makenzie is the latest addition to Iraq&#8217;s 2026 World Cup squad, replacing Ahmed Yahya who is out due to a hamstring injury, the Iraqi national team announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The official statement on X revealed that head coach Graham Arnold made the decision based on a medical report.<\/p>\n<p>This move comes as Iraq reaches Chicago, ready to participate in their first World Cup in 40 years, facing competitive teams in Group I: France, Senegal, and Norway.<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahmed Hassan Makenzie is the latest addition to Iraq&#8217;s 2026 World Cup squad, replacing Ahmed Yahya who is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[3095,47963,46679,2803,382,2711,34235,94,47964,971,19280],"class_list":["post-148435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-ahmed-hassan-makenzie","tag-ahmed-yahya","tag-chicago","tag-france","tag-graham-arnold","tag-group-i","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-world-cup","tag-norway","tag-senegal"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116705333314345384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}