{"id":11323,"date":"2010-07-14T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T00:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/07\/14\/mahdavikia-i-advised-ozil-to-join-germany\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T00:11:10","slug":"mahdavikia-i-advised-ozil-to-join-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/07\/14\/mahdavikia-i-advised-ozil-to-join-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahdavikia: I advised Ozil to join Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"mahdavikia-red-black\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mahdavikia-red-black.jpg\" height=\"319\" width=\"425\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mehdi Mahdavikia said that he had recommended to German footballer Mesut Ozil to join the German team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ozil, who is of Turkish lineage, played on the German team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup and scored a sole goal against Ghana in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOzil and I had the same agent in Bundesliga and he asked me whether to choose Turkey or Germany and I told him Germany was a better choice,\u201d the former Hamburg winger said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about North Korea\u2019s performance in the World Cup, he said, \u201cThey experienced an up-and-down performance in the event. North Korea did a pretty good job against Brazil, but had a poor performance against Portugal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the other Asian teams showed a good display in South Africa,\u201d the Steel Azin player added.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia who received an autographed shirt from Jairzinho, concluded, \u201cI am so happy that the former Brazil striker knew me. I am proud of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Mehdi Mahdavikia said that he had recommended to German footballer Mesut Ozil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4512,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}