{"id":13089,"date":"2012-07-22T16:56:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/22\/i-became-homesick-nekounam-says\/"},"modified":"2012-07-22T16:56:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:56:52","slug":"i-became-homesick-nekounam-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/22\/i-became-homesick-nekounam-says\/","title":{"rendered":"I became homesick, Nekounam says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Nekounam-Uefa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Nekounam-Uefa.jpg\" height=\"341\" width=\"300\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal\u2019s newly-signed Javad Nekounam said that he has been tired of being away from his motherland.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Osasuna midfielder, who lived in Spain for years, joined Esteghlal on Saturday on a one-year contract. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI was going to become Osasuna youth coach after my playing career in the team. I was a member of Osasuna for five years and I became homesick,\u201d Nekounam said in the news conference held at the Esteghlal club on Sunday. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI am here because Esteghlal is my childhood team. I\u2019ve come here to help Esteghlal and don\u2019t care about captaincy in the team. We can win the AFC Champions League if we work hard,\u201d the 32-year player said. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI had offers from Spain and Arab teams but preferred to come to Iran and play for Esteghlal. I\u2019ve already worked under Amir Ghalenoei (Esteghlal coach) and I am happy because of working with him once again,\u201d Nekounam added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal\u2019s newly-signed Javad Nekounam said that he has been tired of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":5061,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089","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=13089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}