{"id":11725,"date":"2010-12-16T19:23:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T03:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/16\/dejagah-refuses-to-play-for-iran-in-asian-cup\/"},"modified":"2010-12-16T19:23:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T03:23:43","slug":"dejagah-refuses-to-play-for-iran-in-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/16\/dejagah-refuses-to-play-for-iran-in-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Dejagah refuses to play for Iran in Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.morgenpost.de\/multimedia\/archive\/00006\/139711_jpg_6911b.jpg\" width=\"339\" height=\"226\" \/>PFDC &#8211; WOLFSBURG\/TEHRAN, <strong>Bundesliga star Ashkan Dejagah (24) refused to play for Iran due to his commitment to VFL Wolfsburg.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to several German and Iranian sources, the Tehran-born striker is worried about his situation in Wolfsburg if he leaves the German Bundesliga for at least one month.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian Football Federation (IFF) criticized Wolfburg&#8217;s management for being non-cooperative. IFF spokesman Khosro Walizadeh said in an interview with Mehr News Agency that the German Bundesliga club refused to release Dejagah. <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore Walizadeh mentioned that Wolfsburg possibly pressurized the former Hertha BSC player to stay in Germany instead of playing for Iran in January.<\/p>\n<p>Walizadeh questioned Wolfsburg&#8217;s refusal as the Asian Cup 2011 in Qatar is an official FIFA date. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; WOLFSBURG\/TEHRAN, Bundesliga star Ashkan Dejagah (24) refused to play for Iran due to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5448,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11725","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=11725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}