{"id":12107,"date":"2011-04-23T18:27:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T01:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/23\/karimi-plays-in-bundesliga-again-after-four-years\/"},"modified":"2011-04-23T18:27:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T01:27:46","slug":"karimi-plays-in-bundesliga-again-after-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/04\/23\/karimi-plays-in-bundesliga-again-after-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Karimi plays in Bundesliga again after four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Karimi034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Karimi034.jpg\" height=\"259\" width=\"350\" \/>PFDC &#8211; GELSENKRICHEN, <strong>Ali Karimi finally played Bundesliga football again, coming on as second half substitute in FC Schalke&#8217;s 0-1 defeat to FC Kaiserlautern on Saturday afternoon.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Schalke, who will face Manchester United in UEFA Champions League on Tuesday, fell behind when Lakic scored three minutes before the break.<\/p>\n<p>Schalke boss Ralf Ragnick reacted and brought on three offensive midfielders before and during second half, Karimi replacing striker Edu being his third and final substitution after 62 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian playmaker played as half-right offensive midfielder in the 4-1-4-1 system and showed calmness and security on the ball as usual, although not everything he tried was successful.<\/p>\n<p>Still he certainly had an all but disappointing display and almost helped creating an equalizer three minutes from time. Karimi&#8217;s leftfooted cross from the left side couldn&#8217;t be cleared by the defense, but Matip&#8217;s following effort from close range missed the target.<\/p>\n<p>Karimi&#8217;s last Bundesliga game had taken place in June 2007 when he scored his third and final Bundesliga goal for Bayern Munich against Mainz 05.<\/p>\n<p>Schalke remain in tenth position in nomansland of the Bundesliga table and will concentrate on the Champions League and the German Cup final instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; GELSENKRICHEN, Ali Karimi finally played Bundesliga football again, coming on as second half&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":5073,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107","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=12107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}