{"id":12654,"date":"2012-01-04T20:05:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/01\/04\/khalatbari-honored-to-work-under-diego\/"},"modified":"2012-01-04T20:05:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:05:21","slug":"khalatbari-honored-to-work-under-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/01\/04\/khalatbari-honored-to-work-under-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalatbari &#8216;honored to work under Diego&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ffiri.ir\/html\/images\/news\/9575-0-norm.png\" height=\"252\" width=\"252\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Iranian footballer Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari joined Al Wasl of the United Arab Emirates until the end of the season on Wednesday.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The attacking midfielder, who left Al Gharrafa after the Qatari team signed up a contract with his countryman Farhad Majidi, joined Al Wasl on a six-month contract for an undisclosed fee. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Wasl is a great team and I know a lot about them. A number of fellow Iranian players have played well for Al Wasl and I hope to do the same and impress the fans and the coach,\u201d the 28-year-old said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an honor to work under Diego Maradona and it still feels like a dream which has come true. I&#8217;m here to work hard and try to quickly gain a starting spot and win the confidence of the fans, management and, of course, the coach,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Khalatbari helped Iran\u2019s Zob Ahan to become AFC Champions League runner-up in 2010, where South Korean Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma defeated them 3-1 in the final game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; DUBAI, Iranian footballer Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari joined Al Wasl of the United Arab&#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-12654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":3689,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654","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=12654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}