{"id":14702,"date":"2013-05-26T07:51:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14702"},"modified":"2013-05-26T07:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:51:41","slug":"ali-karimi-to-come-out-of-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/05\/26\/ali-karimi-to-come-out-of-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Karimi to come out of retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Persepolis and Iran midfielder Ali Karimi has decided to come out of retirement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In early May, Karimi, 35, called time on his career when Persepolis lost to Sepahan in penalty shootout in Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a hard decision to make. I need more time to think about that, but now, we should concentrate on national team,\u201d Karimi told Fars News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran has a must-win game against Qatar on June 4 and I will support our team as a fan. Hopefully Iran books a place in the competitions and make the Iranian people happy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Karimi made 127 appearances and accumulated 38 goals across 14 years for Iran. He is the country&#8217;s third top international goal-scorer, behind Ali Daei and Karim Bagheri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Persepolis and Iran midfielder Ali Karimi has decided to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":14693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":3530,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702","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=14702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}