{"id":21636,"date":"2015-05-26T13:44:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T20:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21636"},"modified":"2015-05-26T13:44:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T20:44:47","slug":"i-rejected-persepolis-to-join-nec-alireza-jahanbakhsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/05\/26\/i-rejected-persepolis-to-join-nec-alireza-jahanbakhsh\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I rejected Persepolis to join NEC&#8221; &#8211; Alireza Jahanbakhsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian international player Alireza Jahanbakhsh has revealed that he had rejected Persepolis lucrative offer to join NEC Nijmegen.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just 19-year-old when Persepolis general manager at that time Mr. Rouyanian called me to convince me but I had a bigger dream. I wanted to move to Europe and now I\u2019m completely happy with my decision,\u201d said Jahanbakhsh in an interview with 90 TV show. <\/p>\n<p>Jahanbakhsh, who voted the best player of the 2014-15 Jupiler League earlier this month, has been linked to several clubs after he stated that he is going to leave NEC Nijmegen this summer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a couple of offers from England, Belgium and the Netherlands. NEC has received two official offers, one from a Championship side in England and the other from Belgian side Anderlecht but I prefer to remain in Netherlands because I\u2019ve just become familiar with the atmosphere and the country\u2019s culture,\u201d Jahanbakhsh added. <\/p>\n<p>The 21-year old winger helped his team to promote back to the Eredivisie, providing 18 assists and scoring 12 goals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian international player Alireza Jahanbakhsh has revealed that he had rejected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,85,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c31-pfdc-interviews","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":2561,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21636","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}