{"id":11405,"date":"2010-08-09T18:17:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T01:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/09\/nekounam-backs-mahdavikia-and-hashemian-comeback\/"},"modified":"2010-08-09T18:17:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T01:17:48","slug":"nekounam-backs-mahdavikia-and-hashemian-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/09\/nekounam-backs-mahdavikia-and-hashemian-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Nekounam backs Mahdavikia and Hashemian comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"nekoo-laughing1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/nekoo-laughing1.jpg\" height=\"216\" width=\"320\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football captain looks forward to see veterans Mehdi Mahdavikia, Ali Karimi and Vahid Hashemian come back to their national duty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Osasuna midfielder, who will accompany Iran in a warm-up match against Armenia on Wednesday, said the experienced players will definitely help Iran have a better performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are my best friends and I\u2019d like to see them in the national team again. We will be able to get better results with them,\u201d Nekounam said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreparatory matches like the friendly against European Armenia will help us get ready for the Asian Cup,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nekounam linked to Olympiacos last month. He said, \u201cI have one year remaining on my contract. Meanwhile, I have offers from Turkey and Greece. But I\u2019d like to stay in Osasuna and I\u2019ve talked to the team\u2019s officials about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football captain looks forward to see veterans Mehdi Mahdavikia, Ali Karimi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3764,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405","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=11405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}