{"id":11020,"date":"2010-02-26T18:59:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T02:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/02\/26\/i-am-back-for-the-people-karimi-says\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T18:59:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T02:59:01","slug":"i-am-back-for-the-people-karimi-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/02\/26\/i-am-back-for-the-people-karimi-says\/","title":{"rendered":"I am back for the people, Karimi says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Ali-Karimi333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Ali-Karimi333.jpg\" height=\"251\" width=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Ali Karimi said on Friday that he will come back to Iran national football team just on account of the people.<br \/> <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Iran coach Afshin Ghotbi invited Ali Karimi to the national team on Thursday while the Wizard of Tehran has not played for the team since June 2009.<br \/> <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u201cI had bid farewell to the national team to help the Iranian football officials build a new young team. On the other hand, being invited to the national team is a great honor for any player.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I am obliged to play for my people and my country,\u201d Karimi stated in his personal website.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Iran is scheduled to play Thailand on March 3 in the 2011 Asian Cup qualifier in Tehran.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Ali Karimi said on Friday that he will come back to Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6738,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}