{"id":11916,"date":"2011-01-31T18:05:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T02:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/31\/magath-optimistic-about-karimi-impact\/"},"modified":"2011-01-31T18:05:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T02:05:48","slug":"magath-optimistic-about-karimi-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/31\/magath-optimistic-about-karimi-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Magath optimistic on Karimi impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/11079\/13_13-1.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"444\" \/><\/span>PFDC &#8211; GELSENKIRCHEN, <strong>Shortly afer the transfer of Iranian playmaker Ali Karimi  to Schalke 04, coach Felix Magath explained to reporters, why he signed the 32-year-old. <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy that we can add another experienced player to the squad until the end of the season&#8221;, Magath is quoted on bi-weekly sports magazine &#8216;kicker&#8217;s&#8217; homepage. <span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We currently have problems transferring the game from midfield to attack.   <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Karimi is a very good football player and will be able to help us in this regard.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p>Magath was also quick to point out that the signing of the former Bayern Munich man involves &#8220;no financial risk&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Ali Karimi, who according to &#8216;kicker&#8217; will probably mainly be used as joker, was a free agent after being released from Iranian club Steel Azin following quarrels with coaches and club officials. <br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><br \/>The 2004 Asian Footballer of the Year, who was left out of Iran&#8217;s Asian Cup squad, will be awarded number 10 at Schalke.   <\/p>\n<p>Schalke 04 were in need of new options in midfield after playmaker Ivan Rakitic&#8217;s departure to FC Sevilla. <\/p>\n<p>The Champions League participants also signed midfielders Anthony Annan and Danilo Avelar as well as striker Angelo Charisteas.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; GELSENKIRCHEN, Shortly afer the transfer of Iranian playmaker Ali Karimi to Schalke 04,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":7552,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916","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=11916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}