{"id":14466,"date":"2013-05-07T11:25:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14466"},"modified":"2013-05-10T07:08:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:08:06","slug":"mehdi-rahmati-apologizes-to-iranians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/05\/07\/mehdi-rahmati-apologizes-to-iranians\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehdi Rahmati apologizes to Iranians [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal keeper Mehdi Rahmati has apologized to the Iranian nation over his withdrawal from the national football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In January, former No. 1, Mehdi Rahmati, in a surprise move withdrew from the national team due to some problems.<\/p>\n<p>Iran football coach Carlos Queiroz subsequently invited Rahman Ahmadi and Daniel Davari to the national team.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Iran\u2019s state TV broadcast on Monday night, Rahmati said, \u201cQueiroz has proved himself at Manchester United as assistant of Sir Alex Ferguson and he also coached Real Madrid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve learned so many things from the Portuguese coach during the last two years. I believe he is the best foreign coach who has ever come to Iran,\u201d Rahmati said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to return to the Iran football team. I think it\u2019s time to stop talking about what has happened. Now, it\u2019s time to support the Iran football team,\u201d Esteghlal goalie added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will face Qatar in a must-win game on June 4 in the Qatari capital Doha. The Persians will also play Lebanon and South Korea on June 11 and 18 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is third in Group A with seven points. Uzbekistan leads the group with 11 points with one game more, followed by South Korea with 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Below comes the interview from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfdctv.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PFDC TV<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/65602121\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/65602121<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal keeper Mehdi Rahmati has apologized to the Iranian nation over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6365,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466","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=14466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}