{"id":11451,"date":"2010-08-27T12:28:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/27\/karimi-fined-returns-to-training\/"},"modified":"2010-08-27T12:28:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:28:38","slug":"karimi-fined-returns-to-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/27\/karimi-fined-returns-to-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Karimi fined, returns to training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Karimi-interview\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Karimi-interview.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"355\" \/>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian footballer star Ali Karimi, who was sacked by his club for not  fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, returned to practice on  Wednesday, a report said. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s ILNA news agency said Karimi had agreed to pay the fine of around 40,000 dollars levied by his club, Steel Azin FC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I respect the ruling of the club&#8217;s disciplinary committee,&#8221; ILNA quoted Karimi as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The  committee found Karimi guilty of disrespecting Iran&#8217;s football  federation and the club&#8217;s supervisor as well as not fasting during a  training session on August 12, the club said on its website late  Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to state television, Steel Azin president  Hossein Hedayati welcomed the move to reinstate Karimi as he hailed him  as a &#8220;national treasure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Karimi, 31, had earlier denied any wrongdoing and insisted he has always heeded religious values, especially during Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>The  Iranian national team&#8217;s second most capped player and third-highest  scorer, Karimi had a two-year stint in the Bundesliga, scoring four  goals in 50 appearances for Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian footballer star Ali Karimi, who was sacked by his club for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3740,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11451","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=11451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}