{"id":12613,"date":"2011-12-20T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/12\/20\/mahdavikia-close-to-persepolis-move\/"},"modified":"2011-12-20T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T01:19:00","slug":"mahdavikia-close-to-persepolis-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/12\/20\/mahdavikia-close-to-persepolis-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahdavikia close to Persepolis move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"mahdavikia-red-black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mahdavikia-red-black.jpg\" height=\"287\" width=\"383\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Damash midfielder Mehdi Mahdavikia will likely join Persepolis in the winter transfer window.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Damash general manager Amir Abedini said Mahdavikia has decided to leave the team after some fans insulted him during the match against Naft. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMahdavikia told me he will never return to Damash. We are ready to let him to join Persepolis but the team has to let Hadi Norouzi to join us in a swap deal,\u201d Abedini said. <\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia, who featured Hamburg SV All-Stars against Zidan &amp; Ronaldo and Friends last week, was expected to join Persepolis at the beginning of the Iran Professional League season but the team\u2019s coach Hamid Estili didn\u2019t sign him. <\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old player said he has not yet decided about his future plans. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI talked to Persepolis general manager (Mohammad Ruyanian) but I have not made a decision yet whether I will continue my football or quit it,\u201d Mahdavikia said. &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia played three years for Persepolis before moving to VfL Bochum in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>He also played for Hamburger SV and Eintracht Frankfurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Damash midfielder Mehdi Mahdavikia will likely join Persepolis in the winter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4812,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613","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=12613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}