{"id":36992,"date":"2019-07-13T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36992"},"modified":"2019-07-13T08:44:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:44:06","slug":"vahid-amiri-returns-to-persepolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/07\/13\/vahid-amiri-returns-to-persepolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Vahid Amiri returns to Persepolis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian international midfielder Vahid Amiri returned to Persepolis football team on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 31-year-old player has penned a two-year contract with Persepolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amiri\u2019s performance in the 2018 World Cup caught the eye of Turkish football club Trabzonspor but he failed to hold down a regular starting place in the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He left Trabzonspor last week and returned to the Iranian giants, where he had claimed two Iran Professional League titles and two Super Cups with the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am very happy to return to Persepolis once again. I had several offers from the other Iranian teams but I opted to return to my home,\u201d Amiri said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m excited for a new opportunity in Persepolis. &nbsp;I know some of Persepolis fans are not happy with my decision last season and I understand them. But I\u2019ve returned to the team and I will do my best to make them happy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amiri, who has been in Iran squad in two AFC Asian Cups (2015 and 2019), will leave Tehran on Sunday to join Persepolis team in Istanbul training camp. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian international midfielder Vahid Amiri returned to Persepolis football team on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,172,165,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":611,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36992","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=36992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36994,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36992\/revisions\/36994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}