{"id":10940,"date":"2010-01-31T09:44:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T17:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/01\/31\/i-said-no-to-iran-former-arsenal-footballer\/"},"modified":"2010-01-31T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T17:44:53","slug":"i-said-no-to-iran-former-arsenal-footballer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/01\/31\/i-said-no-to-iran-former-arsenal-footballer\/","title":{"rendered":"I said no to Iran: former Arsenal footballer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">MNA &#8211; LONDON, <strong>Former Arsenal footballer Danny Karbassiyoon, who is of Iranian descent, said he<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\" alt=\"karbassiyoon1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/karbassiyoon1.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"510\" \/> refused to play for Iran. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Karbassiyoon was born from an Iranian father and Italian mother in the U.S. and played for Arsenal in the 2004-05 season.<\/p>\n<p>One of his accomplishments is that he scored a goal against Manchester City in the Carling Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian Football Federation asked me if I were interested in playing for Iran national team and I politely refrained from the offer. That upset some people who thought bashing me on various Internet sites was the best thing to do,\u201d Karbassiyonn was quoted as saying by \u201cbleacherreport\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI follow the Iranian national team\u2019s results, but I am not interested in the players\u2019 news as much as I used to be. Before I started my work with Arsenal I had to use half of my brain as a database for players in my region. I used to know all the players quite well. I especially enjoyed watching [Ali] Karimi and [Mehdi] Mahdavikia when they were in their prime. I was actually able to watch Mahdavikia at a game in Hamburg when I was there for several months. I must have taken about 1000 pictures of him, none of which really came out,\u201d the 26-year old player added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; LONDON, Former Arsenal footballer Danny Karbassiyoon, who is of Iranian descent, said he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":6240,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}