{"id":19665,"date":"2014-11-26T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19665"},"modified":"2014-11-26T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:13:34","slug":"i-wanted-to-rejoin-persepolis-eamon-zayed-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/11\/26\/i-wanted-to-rejoin-persepolis-eamon-zayed-says\/","title":{"rendered":"I wanted to rejoin Persepolis, Eamon Zayed says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Eamon Zayed has revealed he wanted to return to Persepolis before agreeing a move to Malaysian football team Sabah FA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dublin-born Zayed, who spent the second half of last season on loan to Sligo Rovers, has joined Malaysian club Sabah Rhinos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the coach (George O&#8217;Callaghan) and he asked me to come and play and score goals because they need a striker,\u201d Zayed told Tehran Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve already signed El Hadj Diouf, who is a great player and some foreign players so I said I would come and help them,\u201d the Libyan international added.<\/p>\n<p>Zayed had already said he would like to join Persepolis but he signed a contract with the Malaysian team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI waited for Persepolis but the coach (Hamid Derakhshan) said he doesn\u2019t need me,\u201d the 31-year-striker said.<\/p>\n<p>Zayed was given the \u201cMr. hat trick\u201d nickname when he scored three goals against Persepolis arch-rival Esteghlal in February 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Zayed praised his former club after it defeated Esteghlal 2-1 on Sunday in Iran Professional League (IPL).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great match and it&#8217;s nice to see some goals in the derby. I am really happy Persepolis won the match. I watched the game and it was a really good game. Persepolis deserved this victory,\u201d Zayed added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Eamon Zayed has revealed he wanted to return to Persepolis before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":3805,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665","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=19665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}