{"id":12445,"date":"2011-09-27T18:51:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T01:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/09\/27\/farhad-majidi-quits-international-football\/"},"modified":"2011-09-27T18:51:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T01:51:23","slug":"farhad-majidi-quits-international-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/09\/27\/farhad-majidi-quits-international-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Farhad Majidi quits international football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Majidibig\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Majidibig.jpg\" height=\"273\" width=\"349\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran\u2019s veteran player Farhad Majidi has quit international football, what he says, to make room for the youngsters in the national team. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI announce my retirement from international football since I believe that the young players must be invited to the team. Many years ago, I was a victim because the veteran players didn\u2019t give the newcomers the chance to play. Now, I don\u2019t want to be someone like them,\u201d the 35-year-old player said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal Captain Majidi made his debut in 1996 and played 45 times for Iran and scored 10 goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, Iran will qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil under guidance of Carlos Queiroz, with whom I feel proud of working in the national team. Iran has so many talented players,\u201d Majidi added.<\/p>\n<p>With seven goals, Majidi has been the best scorer for Esteghlal in the current Iran Professional League season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran\u2019s veteran player Farhad Majidi has quit international football, what he says,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6428,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12445","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=12445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}