{"id":18855,"date":"2014-07-20T10:18:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T17:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18855"},"modified":"2014-07-21T09:06:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T16:06:42","slug":"18855","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/07\/20\/18855\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Karimi hangs his boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 TEHRAN, <strong>Ali Karimi the Iranian superstar announced his retirement from football at age 36, while having several offers from Iran\u2019s premier league clubs. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a farewell note he said \u201cIt is always sad and a hard task to separate from the love that holds the fabric of your existence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in a position where I have no alternatives but to leave the scene and my decision is final and irreversible\u201d said Karimi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank all those who helped me and my dreams to come through and because of discovering me when I was playing on the streets as a kid\u201d, said the Team Melli star.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cNow that I am retired, I will continue as a fanatical Persepolis and Team Melli fan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M_2mqn85uNg#t=234\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M_2mqn85uNg#t=234<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0645\u0631\u062f\u06cc \u0628\u0646\u0627\u0645 \u00ab \u0639\u0644\u06cc \u06a9\u0631\u06cc\u0645\u06cc \u00bb Ali Karimi\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CORCIT2oAro?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 TEHRAN, Ali Karimi the Iranian superstar announced his retirement from football at age&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":13836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":6198,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855","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\/25049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}