{"id":19116,"date":"2014-08-23T10:48:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T17:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19116"},"modified":"2014-08-24T16:03:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T23:03:54","slug":"iranian-legends-to-bid-farewell-against-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/08\/23\/iranian-legends-to-bid-farewell-against-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian legends to bid farewell against South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Three Iranian football legends Ali Karimi, Vahid Hashemian and Mehdi <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/tehrantimes.com\/images\/stories\/edim\/09-2%2848%29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"229\" \/>Mahdavikia will officially bid farewell to Team Melli in a friendly match against South Korea on November 18th, the Iranian Football Federation announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The three players have previously played for Persepolis but finished their careers in silence without any decent farewell\u00a0match.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Karimi announced his retirement last month after publishing a letter on his Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p>Vahid Hashemian has finished his career on his 36th birthday in July 2012 while Mehdi Mahdavikia announced his retirement on March 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Three Iranian football legends Ali Karimi, Vahid Hashemian and Mehdi Mahdavikia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5583,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19116","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=19116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}