{"id":11690,"date":"2010-12-02T21:24:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T05:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/02\/dejagah-takes-up-iran-offer\/"},"modified":"2010-12-02T21:24:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T05:24:36","slug":"dejagah-takes-up-iran-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/02\/dejagah-takes-up-iran-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dejagah takes up Iran offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/supersport.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Dejagah1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dejagah1.jpg\" height=\"344\" width=\"245\" \/>Supersport<\/a> &#8211; WOLFSBURG, <strong>Wolfsburg midfielder Ashkan Dejagah has accepted an offer to  play for the Iran national team, according to an Iranian report on  Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The German-Iranian, who won the European under-21 title with Germany  last year, opted for Iran following lengthy talks with Iran coach Afshin  Ghotbi, the Teheran sports newspaper Khabar Varzeshi reported. <\/p>\n<p>The report said Dejagah, an attacking midfielder who can also play as a  striker, would be given the number 10 shirt which was worn for more than  10 years by Ali Daei, a footballing legend in Iran. <\/p>\n<p>There was no official confirmation for the report. <\/p>\n<p>Iran is preparing for the 2011 Asian Cup which begins in Qatar on  January 7. <\/p>\n<p>Dejagah, 24, would be eligible to join the Iran squad as he  has not been capped at senior level by Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supersport &#8211; WOLFSBURG, Wolfsburg midfielder Ashkan Dejagah has accepted an offer to play for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4840,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11690","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=11690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}