{"id":11223,"date":"2010-05-09T09:13:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/09\/galaxy-eyes-irans-ali-karimi\/"},"modified":"2010-05-09T09:13:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T16:13:20","slug":"galaxy-eyes-irans-ali-karimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/09\/galaxy-eyes-irans-ali-karimi\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy eyes Iran\u2019s Ali Karimi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/karimicelebrates09.jpg\" alt=\"karimicelebrates09\" style=\"float: right;\" height=\"302\" width=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">MNA &#8211; LOS ANGELES, <strong>The American football club Los Angeles Galaxy is eager to sign up Iran\u2019s Steel Azin midfielder Ali Karimi, according to the team\u2019s Technical Manager Heshmat Mohajerani.<br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Iranian international player\u2019s contract expires at the end of the current season. Karimi is not willing to play in any other Iranian team except his former club Persepolis; however, he cannot play in that team either since he quarreled with the team\u2019s current coach Ali Daei.<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Karimi is expected to travel to the U.S. to negotiate with the Galaxy officials within the next two weeks.<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u201cAli (Karimi) has two offers from LA Galaxy and the UAE\u2019s Al Ahli, but I think he would prefer to play in the American major league soccer,\u201d Mohajerani said.<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Karimi played in Bayern Munich from 2005 to 2007 before leaving the team for Qatar SC.<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The 32-year-old will probably join the well-known British midfielder David Beckham in Galaxy.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; LOS ANGELES, The American football club Los Angeles Galaxy is eager to sign&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":9026,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223","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=11223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}