{"id":26870,"date":"2017-01-07T16:05:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T00:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26870"},"modified":"2017-01-07T16:05:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T00:05:52","slug":"dinamo-zagreb-wont-allow-me-to-leave-ali-karimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/01\/07\/dinamo-zagreb-wont-allow-me-to-leave-ali-karimi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dinamo Zagreb won\u2019t allow me to leave&#8221;: Ali Karimi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZAGREB, <strong>Iranian midfielder Ali Karimi, who joined Croatian champion Dinamo Zagreb last summer, stated that despite having a couple of offers the club won\u2019t allow him to leave.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old midfielder didn\u2019t get a decent chance to show his skills as he has been mostly among the reserve players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve still three years left on my contract with Dinamo Zagreb and they won\u2019t allow me to leave the club after just six months. However, I\u2019ve received a couple of offers from Iranian and European sides but I\u2019m committed to my contract,\u201d Karimi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to stay and fight for a place in the starting lineup. No player want to be a bench warmer and I\u2019m not an exception. If I\u2019m forced to leave Dinamo Zagreb I\u2019ll go somewhere to play more,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On 1 July 2016, Karimi joined Dinamo Zagreb from Iran\u2019s Sepahan on a five-year contract for a reported US$400,000 transfer fee.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first Iranian to play in Croatian Prva HNL.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old midfielder made his league debut on 13 August 2016, coming on as second half substitute in a 2\u20131 victory against Inter Zapresic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZAGREB, Iranian midfielder Ali Karimi, who joined Croatian champion Dinamo Zagreb last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":3196,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26870","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=26870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}