{"id":21025,"date":"2015-04-01T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T16:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21025"},"modified":"2015-04-01T09:44:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T16:44:43","slug":"javad-nekounam-bids-farewell-to-international-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/04\/01\/javad-nekounam-bids-farewell-to-international-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Javad Nekounam Bids Farewell to International Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; STOCKHOLM, <strong>Iranian national football team captain Javad Nekounam has confirmed his retirement from international football on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old veteran midfielder won 151 caps in an international career that took him to two World Cups in 2006 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>He had said he has no plan to retire ahead of the friendly match against Sweden.<br \/>\nNekounam made his debut for Team Melli in a friendly match against Ecuador in 2000 at the age of 19 years and 31 days.<\/p>\n<p>He scored the first goal in Iran&#8217;s 2-0 win over Chile on March 26 and also converted his penalty in Iran&#8217;s 3-1 defeat to Sweden on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; STOCKHOLM, Iranian national football team captain Javad Nekounam has confirmed his retirement from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5111,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21025","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}