{"id":11914,"date":"2011-01-31T13:19:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T21:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/31\/ali-karimi-close-to-sign-with-german-giant-schalke-04\/"},"modified":"2011-01-31T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T21:19:57","slug":"ali-karimi-close-to-sign-with-german-giant-schalke-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/31\/ali-karimi-close-to-sign-with-german-giant-schalke-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Karimi to sign with German giants Schalke 04"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/karimi-happy12.jpg\" \/>PFDC &#8211; GELSENKIRCHEN\/TEHRAN, <strong>Former Bayern Munich star Ali Karimi is in final talks with German Bundesliga side FC Schalke 04.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> According to the German sport website kicker.de, Schalke manager Felix  Magath (57) offered the former Iranian national team player a contract  until Sommer 2011. <\/p>\n<p> The 57-year-old confirmed that Schalke have agreed to sign Karimi before  the end of the transfer window, only paperwork still has to be done.<\/p>\n<p> Mohammad Ali Karimi Pashaki (born in Tehran in 1978) resigned from the  Iranian football national team in 2010 and had scored 36 goals in 112  appearances for &#8220;Team Melli&#8221;. His last club station was Iranian side FC  Steel Azin Tehran.<\/p>\n<p> The 32-year-old &#8220;Wizard of Tehran&#8221; made his debut for German giant FC  Bayern Munich in August 2005 and wore the jersey of his only European  club station until summer 2007. The coach back then: Felix Magath<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Highlights of Karimi<br \/><\/strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ali Karimi Bayern Munich vs AC Milan, CL 05 06\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9tmcFhlWlFY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ali Karimi vs. Hannover\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2nQnJk8KrYk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ali Karimi vs. Dortmund\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FmWR4u81bEw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=svsS_W0781c&#038;feature\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=svsS_W0781c&#038;feature<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; GELSENKIRCHEN\/TEHRAN, Former Bayern Munich star Ali Karimi is in final talks with German&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":11913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":10923,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}