{"id":11465,"date":"2010-09-05T23:31:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T06:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/09\/05\/the-door-is-open-for-karimi-and-majidi-ghotbi-says\/"},"modified":"2010-09-05T23:31:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T06:31:01","slug":"the-door-is-open-for-karimi-and-majidi-ghotbi-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/09\/05\/the-door-is-open-for-karimi-and-majidi-ghotbi-says\/","title":{"rendered":"The door is open for Karimi and Majidi, Ghotbi says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football coach Afshin Ghotbi said the big names will be welcome back <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"ghotbilarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ghotbilarge.jpg\" height=\"397\" width=\"415\" \/>to the team if they are well-prepared.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ali  Karimi and Farhad Majidi have not been summoned to the national team.  When asked if the two players have the chance to return to the national  team, Ghotbi said, \u201c100 percent. The door is open to all the players. We  are going to be a successful team in the Asian Cup and will take  advantage of our best players,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran, who is preparing itself for  the 2011 AFC Asian Cup, recently defeated Armenia and China in two  friendlies. The top Asian team is scheduled to play South Korea in Seoul  on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a bad memory of playing in Seoul against  South Korea. Iran was held to a draw against the Korean team and  eventually failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup. We want to be happy  at the end of the friendly against South Korea,\u201d Ghotbi concluded.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football coach Afshin Ghotbi said the big names will be welcome&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4883,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11465","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}