{"id":17279,"date":"2014-02-10T02:21:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T10:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17279"},"modified":"2014-02-10T02:28:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T10:28:22","slug":"former-esteghlal-striker-samereh-hangs-up-his-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/02\/10\/former-esteghlal-striker-samereh-hangs-up-his-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Esteghlal striker Samereh hangs up his boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; RAFSANJAN,\u00a0<strong>Mes of Rafsanjan striker Ali Samereh announced his retirement from football at the age of 36 on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Samereh had spells at Mes of Rafsanjan and Fajr Sepasi before moving to Esteghlal in 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">He joined Perugia on loan in 2001 but endured disappointing spells at the Italian football team and returned to Tehran based Esteghlal again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Samereh has also played in the Emirati clubs Al-Shaab and Ajman from 2005 to 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">He became extremely popular among the Esteghlal fans for his 30th-second goal against arch rival Persepolis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Samereh played 25 matches for Iran football team and scored twice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; RAFSANJAN,\u00a0Mes of Rafsanjan striker Ali Samereh announced his retirement from football at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3554,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17279","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}