{"id":12640,"date":"2011-12-31T18:43:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T02:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/12\/31\/mahdavikia-returns-to-persepolis\/"},"modified":"2011-12-31T18:43:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T02:43:17","slug":"mahdavikia-returns-to-persepolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/12\/31\/mahdavikia-returns-to-persepolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahdavikia returns to Persepolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Kia_Frankfurt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Kia_Frankfurt.jpg\" height=\"180\" width=\"306\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mehdi Mahdavikia will play for Persepolis in the second half of the Iran Professional League despite the fact that he had been told the Tehran-based team would not sign him.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Persepolis\u2019s newly appointed coach Mustafa Denizli had last week said the team would not sign the veteran midfielder in the transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia was due to join Persepolis football team at the summer but team\u2019s coach Hamid Estili rejected an offer for him and the 34-year-old player joined Damash. <\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia, who joined Persepolis on a six-month contract on Saturday, had said that he is keen to end his career at his former club Persepolis. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so happy to return to my favorite team. Hopefully I can fulfill the expectations of the fans. I met Mr. Denizli last night and talked about the situation,\u201d Mahdavikia said. <\/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, Mehdi Mahdavikia will play for Persepolis in the second half of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4138,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640","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=12640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}