{"id":24922,"date":"2016-04-13T22:28:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T05:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24922"},"modified":"2016-04-13T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T05:30:10","slug":"the-winner-of-the-derby-will-win-the-league-title-mehdi-taremi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/04\/13\/the-winner-of-the-derby-will-win-the-league-title-mehdi-taremi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The winner of the derby will win the league title&#8221;: Mehdi Taremi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis international striker Mehdi Taremi believes that the winner of Friday\u2019s Tehran derby will most likely win this season Iran Professional League title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will take on Esteghlal in the 82nd Tehran derby in the 26th week of IPL at Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe have a very important game on Friday which could decide the winner of this season. This derby is more important than the previous ones because I believe the winner will be this season\u2019s Iran Professional League winner,\u201d Taremi said.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis has not lost in the derbies which Taremi has played.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have defeated Esteghlal twice and one match ended in a draw in three derbies I have played. I hope to score as I have not scored in derby before. At the end, winning the derby is the most important thing, no matter who scores the goals,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis has also started negotiating with Taremi over a contract extension but he stated that he is currently focused on his performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy agent had a meeting with Mr. Taheri (Persepolis acting president) but we have to wait and see what happens at the end of the season. I am completely focused on winning the title and the top scorer award,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis international striker Mehdi Taremi believes that the winner of Friday\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1729,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24922","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=24922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}