{"id":18953,"date":"2014-08-04T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18953"},"modified":"2014-08-04T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T18:24:09","slug":"i-can-always-return-to-europe-dejagah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/08\/04\/i-can-always-return-to-europe-dejagah\/","title":{"rendered":"I can always return to Europe: Dejagah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran international Ashkan Dejagah joined the Qatari club Al Arabi from Fulham for a fee of \u00a35 million, signing a four-year contract last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the transfer, many Iranian fans said Dejagah\u2019s football career was finished with the move and he would not be able to play at the top level in Europe again.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Fars News Agency, Dejagah discussed his transfer to Al Arabi.<\/p>\n<p>Following are excerpts of the interview:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Why did you choose Al Arabi to continue your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: I\u2019m 28 and big clubs in Europe are looking for young talent, so I decided to build my future. The Al Arabi offer was very good financially, so I decided to continue my football in Qatar. Certainly, there are a lot of differences between the Qatar League and European leagues, but I will play like I\u2019m playing for a big European club.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Do you think you can return to Europe again?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Why not. I played seven years in the German Bundesliga and two years in the English Premier League. Then I decided to experience a new challenge in a new atmosphere, and I moved to Qatar. A lot of people are saying my career is finished with this move, but there were a lot of big players who moved to Asian football and then returned to Europe after a couple of years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Tell us about your latest situation at Al Arabi?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Everything is all right. We are in a camp in Germany now, preparing for the new season. Dan Petrescu is a famous coach, who is really professional in his job. After Felix Magath, I believe he is the best coach I\u2019ve ever worked with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Do you think Iran has the potential to win the AFC Asian Cup in Australia?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: We played good football at the World Cup, but I believe we could perform better at the Asian Cup. If we continue with coach Carlos Queiroz, we will have a chance to win the Asian Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Iran international Ashkan Dejagah joined the Qatari club Al Arabi from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":16135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":5714,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18953","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=18953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}