{"id":30886,"date":"2018-02-23T11:54:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T19:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30886"},"modified":"2018-02-23T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:04:38","slug":"iranian-football-legends-karimi-and-daei-bury-the-hatchet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/02\/23\/iranian-football-legends-karimi-and-daei-bury-the-hatchet\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian football legends Karimi and Daei bury the hatchet [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; RASHT, <strong>Sepidrood coach Ali Karimi and Saipa coach Ali Daei ended their feud ahead of a match in Iran Professional League (IPL) on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The war of words between Karimi, Daei started after the 2006 World Cup, where Team Melli failed to book a place in the next stage under the guidance of Branko Ivankovic.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, Karimi accused Daei of being a selfish player who was playing just for his own reputation, not for the team.<\/p>\n<p>Daei holds the record for most international goals with 109 in 149 caps, which is remarkably 25 more than the legendary Ferenc Puskas achieved for Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Karimi, known as the Wizard of Tehran, is arguably the most popular player in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Daei and Karimi both played in Iran\u2019s Persepolis and Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>Sepidrood defeated Saipa 2-0 in Rasht\u2019s Sardar-e Jangal Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Sw2VG3ZBaw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Sw2VG3ZBaw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; RASHT, Sepidrood coach Ali Karimi and Saipa coach Ali Daei ended their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,91,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":2809,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30886","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=30886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30892,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30886\/revisions\/30892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}