{"id":11426,"date":"2010-08-15T15:16:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T22:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/15\/steel-azin-sacked-ali-karimi\/"},"modified":"2010-08-15T15:16:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T22:16:55","slug":"steel-azin-sacked-ali-karimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/15\/steel-azin-sacked-ali-karimi\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel Azin sack midfielder Ali Karimi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.payvand.com\/news\/09\/jun\/Iran-UAE-soccer-Karimi.jpg\" height=\"235\" width=\"341\" \/>Goal.com &#8211; <strong>Iranian side Steel Azin FC have sacked their star midfielder Ali Karimi far failing to fast during the month of Ramadan, according to the club&#8217;s official website.<\/strong><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"><\/p>\n<p>A statement on the club&#8217;s official website reads:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Steel Azin FC has been forced to sack one of its players, Ali Karimi, for being disobedient and not fasting during Ramadan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Karimi   is the second most capped player in the nation&#8217;s history and was named   that Asian Player of the Year in 2004. The 31-year-old also enjoyed a   two-year spell with German giants Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>The club reported the sacking today; however, the Iran&#8217;s state news agency <em>IRNA<\/em> reported that the club&#8217;s chairman, Hossein Hedayati, was unaware of the decision and was against Karimi&#8217;s sacking.<\/p>\n<p>Karimi had been openly critical of the approach of managing director Mostafa Ajorlou in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>Ramadan   started in Iran on Thursday and under Iranian laws, all Muslims are   required to observe the holy month, while those who do not fast,   including non-Muslims, are expected to abstain from eating or drinking   in public. Observing Ramadan involves abstaining from food and drink   from dawn until sunset. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goal.com &#8211; Iranian side Steel Azin FC have sacked their star midfielder Ali Karimi far&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":8012,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}