{"id":12769,"date":"2012-02-26T18:50:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T02:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/26\/dejagah-looking-forward-to-iran-debut\/"},"modified":"2012-02-26T18:50:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T02:50:55","slug":"dejagah-looking-forward-to-iran-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/26\/dejagah-looking-forward-to-iran-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Dejagah looking forward to Iran debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; WOLFSBURG, <strong>Ashkan Dejagah, who is expected to arrive in Tehran on Monday, shortly spoke about his probable <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noows.de\/gallery\/einzelbilder\/sport\/fussball\/Dejagah.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/>debut for Iran in World Cup qualification on Wednesday, Vfl Wolfsburg&#8217;s official homepage reports.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Wolfsburg fan favourite bemoaned his team&#8217;s 1-2 loss to Hoffenheim on Saturday, but nevertheless is excited about his new challenges with Team Melli.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I rather would have gone after a home victory. Neverthelss, I am happy it finally worked out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am looking forward to this experience and will try to make the best out of it&#8221;, the former Hertha Berlin winger added.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran-born Dejagah has played for several German youth teams, however, became eligible to play for Iran&#8217;s senior national team after a change in FIFA regulations in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 Bundesliga and European U21 champion had rejected several invitation by Iran&#8217;s Football Federation, most recently for the 2011 Asian Cup, before finally changing his mind later in the same year.<\/p>\n<p>Dejagah had been invited for the previous three World Cup qualifiers in late 2011, however, had to reject due to injury and passport issues, which meanwhile have been solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; WOLFSBURG, Ashkan Dejagah, who is expected to arrive in Tehran on Monday, shortly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4511,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769","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=12769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}