{"id":14609,"date":"2013-05-19T12:36:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T19:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14609"},"modified":"2013-05-20T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:58:09","slug":"foolad-wants-ali-karimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/05\/19\/foolad-wants-ali-karimi\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolad wants Ali Karimi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AHVAZ, <strong>The Foolad Khuzestan football team is interested in signing Ali Karimi, according to the Iranian club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foolad finished in fourth place in the Iranian Professional League last season and booked a place in the AFC Champions League for next season. The team is going to strengthen for the competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Karimi announced his retirement after Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup final after Persepolis lost to Sepahan in penalty shoot-out but Foolad officials have remained hopeful that the star footballer will change his mind.<\/p>\n<p>Karimi played 127 matches across 14 years and accumulated 38 goals for Iran. The iconic midfielder is the country\u2019s third top international scorer, behind Ali Daei and Karim Bagheri.<\/p>\n<p>Having won Asia\u2019s top individual accolade in 2004, he was nominee for last year\u2019s award following some brilliant displays with both Persepolis and the Iran football team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AHVAZ, The Foolad Khuzestan football team is interested in signing Ali Karimi,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4085,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609","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=14609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}