{"id":15681,"date":"2013-08-24T10:29:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T17:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=15681"},"modified":"2013-08-24T10:39:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T17:39:32","slug":"i-miss-queiroz-and-iranian-players-dejagah-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/08\/24\/i-miss-queiroz-and-iranian-players-dejagah-says\/","title":{"rendered":"I miss Queiroz and Iranian players, Dejagah says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; LONDON, <strong>Fulham midfielder Ashkan Dejagah has said he misses his Iranian teammates and Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dejagah needed an operation on his ankle ligament in April and missed the rest of the last season.<\/p>\n<p>Dejagah returned from Injury in mid-June and came off the bench in warm up matches.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old midfielder was left out of the starting lineup last week against Sunderland, where the Cottagers won 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am getting better. My doctor told me I need more rest. Hopefully, I will return to the lineup as soon as possible,\u201d Dejagah was quoted as saying by the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA).<\/p>\n<p>Media revealed Dejagah has received offers from several Premier League clubs.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI\u2019ve not heard anything about that. I am just concentrating on Fulham and I am not interested in leaving the team. I love being here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so happy because we started the new season with a victory over Sunderland. Fulham wants to qualify for the next season\u2019s Champions League,\u201d Dejagah stated.<\/p>\n<p>Dejagah has not played for Iran football team since Uzbekistan\u2019s match about seven months ago. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15412\" alt=\"Queiroz_celebrating_2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Queiroz_celebrating_2013-350x233.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Queiroz_celebrating_2013-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Queiroz_celebrating_2013-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Queiroz_celebrating_2013.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI miss my teammates and Carlos Queiroz as well. Playing in front of the Iranian fans is so wonderful. I became so desperate after finding out I cannot play in Iran\u2019s last three matches in the World Cup qualifiers,\u201d Dejagah added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran qualified for the 2014 World Cup in June after beating South Korea 1-0 in Ulsan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sure Iran will do its best in the 2014 World Cup. I like to play England or Germany in the competition,\u201d Former Germany Under-21 striker concluded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; LONDON, Fulham midfielder Ashkan Dejagah has said he misses his Iranian teammates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3811,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15681","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}