{"id":28588,"date":"2017-07-13T15:22:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T22:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28588"},"modified":"2017-07-13T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T22:22:35","slug":"ex-iran-midfielder-maziar-zare-hangs-up-his-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/07\/13\/ex-iran-midfielder-maziar-zare-hangs-up-his-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Iran midfielder Maziar Zare hangs up his boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BANDAR-e ANZALI, <strong>Former Persepolis and Iran national football team midfielder Maziar Zare announced his retirement from football.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zare has hung up his boots at the age of 32.<\/p>\n<p>He started his playing career in Malavan Bandar Anzali in 2004 and joined Persepolis four years later.<\/p>\n<p>Zare was a member of Iran national U-23 football team in the 2006 Asian Games. He was called up to the senior squad in June 2007 for the West Asian Football Federation Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Zare played 34 times for Team Melli and scored five goals.<\/p>\n<p>He made his debut for Iran in a match vs Iraq. He played in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification and 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification for Team Melli.<\/p>\n<p>He also was invited in June 2011 by Carlos Queiroz to participate in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BANDAR-e ANZALI, Former Persepolis and Iran national football team midfielder Maziar Zare announced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":4006,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28588","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=28588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}