{"id":14350,"date":"2013-04-23T11:32:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T18:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14350"},"modified":"2013-04-23T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T18:35:30","slug":"dejagah-remains-hopeful-over-irans-future-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/04\/23\/dejagah-remains-hopeful-over-irans-future-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Dejagah remains hopeful over Iran\u2019s future [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Fulham&#8217;s Iranian midfielder Ashkan Dejagah says he is hopeful that Iran football team can reach the 2014 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old underwent an operation on his ankle last week.<\/p>\n<p>Dejagah will not be playing for the Iranian national football team at least for three months.<\/p>\n<p>He will miss the games against Qatar, Lebanon and South Korea in the 2014 World Cup qualifier, slated for June 4, 11, and 18 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In Fulham&#8217;s 3-2 victory over QPR April 1, Dejagah sustained an ankle ligament injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so sad because I cannot play for Iran, however, I am sure my team-mates will do their best to book a place in the World Cup,\u201d Dejagah said in an interview with Iran\u2019s state-run TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe doctors told me I will return from injury within 8 to 12 weeks,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Dejagah joined Fulham from VfL Wolsburg on a three-year deal in late August.<\/p>\n<p>Below comes the video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfdctv.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PFDC TV<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/64590417\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/64590417<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Fulham&#8217;s Iranian midfielder Ashkan Dejagah says he is hopeful that Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4491,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14350","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=14350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}