{"id":24611,"date":"2016-03-11T14:35:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24611"},"modified":"2016-03-11T14:35:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T22:35:19","slug":"i-had-offers-from-france-and-turkey-alireza-jahanbakhsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/03\/11\/i-had-offers-from-france-and-turkey-alireza-jahanbakhsh\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I had offers from France and Turkey&#8221; &#8211; Alireza Jahanbakhsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ALKMAAR, <strong>Alireza Jahanbakhsh said that he has opted to play in the Eredivisie despite several offers from French and Turkish clubs. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a fourteen year old he left home to play in Tehran. Five years later, he left Iran for the Netherlands to join NEC Nijmegen. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the very first days I had big dreams and I knew what I\u2019m going to achieve and I knew that this would be a way full of difficulties,\u201d Jahanbakhsh told Voetbal International. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s now two and a half years that the Iranian winger plays in the Netherlands. He stated that he had a couple of good offers before signing for NEC from Damash Gilan in 2013. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had offers from Turkey and France while Iran\u2019s most popular team Persepolis was interested in signing me but I listened to my heart and joined NEC to play in Europe,\u201d Jahanbakhsh added. <\/p>\n<p>Jahanbakhsh is back to his best after a couple of injuries. He has scored two goals and provided five assists in 17 appearances for AZ Alkmaar this season so far. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ALKMAAR, Alireza Jahanbakhsh said that he has opted to play in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":2330,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24611","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=24611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}