{"id":11433,"date":"2010-08-18T19:36:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T02:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/18\/teymourian-likely-to-join-blackburn-in-january\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T19:36:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T02:36:14","slug":"teymourian-likely-to-join-blackburn-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/18\/teymourian-likely-to-join-blackburn-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Teymourian likely to join Blackburn in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"andranikcelebrating\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/andranikcelebrating.jpg\" width=\"379\" height=\"229\" \/><span style=\"font-family: andale mono,times;\">MNA &#8211; BLACKBURN, <strong>Iranian midfielder Andranik Teymourian said on Wednesday that he is not allowed to play in the Premier League for not having a work permit but is looking forward to joining the Blackburn Rovers in January.<\/strong><br \/><\/span><br \/>\u201cSince I am a player from a non-EU country I need having featured in at least 75% of my national team&#8217;s matches in the past two years. If I had played against Saudi Arabia in the World Cup qualifiers I could have joined Blackburn now,\u201d Teymourian said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlackburn coach Sam Allardyce was interested to sign me but according to English rules, I cannot join them yet. The team\u2019s officials were satisfied with my performance in their training. Blackburn will likely sign me in the winter transfer window,\u201d the 27-year old added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, that is why I am going to join an Iranian or the Emirati team until January. My agent is negotiating with some teams and I will choose my destination within the next two days,\u201d the former Fulham player added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; BLACKBURN, Iranian midfielder Andranik Teymourian said on Wednesday that he is not allowed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":5463,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433","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=11433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}