{"id":33930,"date":"2018-10-31T13:45:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33930"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:45:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:45:42","slug":"jalal-hosseini-to-bid-farewell-from-persepolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/10\/31\/jalal-hosseini-to-bid-farewell-from-persepolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalal Hosseini to bid farewell from Persepolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis captain Jalal Hosseini is going to bid farewell to his professional career in a Reds\u2019 jersey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having represented four clubs in the AFC Champions League, Hosseini is eyeing a first title for him, the club and the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur objective is to reach the final and we promise our fans that we will,\u201d said Persepolis&#8217; central defender Hosseini after scoring late in the second half to propel his side past Al Jazira and into the 2018 AFC Champions League quarter-finals on away goals.<\/p>\n<p>Six months on, Hosseini\u2019s words echo fresh as Persepolis find itself exactly where the skipper had promised \u2013 180 minutes away from delivering the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s first AFC Champions League title.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old\u2019s ability to instil confidence and motivate his teammates has been as influential as his defensive skills in inspiring Persepolis to a maiden appearance in the final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will play as long as I can for Persepolis,\u201d said the 36-year-old after signing a new contract with Tehran side in July. Hosseini\u2019s new deal has no fixed wages nor an end date. A token of loyalty from the player as he prepares to wind down his career at the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will serve the club and bid farewell to my professional career in the Reds\u2019 jersey,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hosseini\u2019s farewell could be that much sweeter with an AFC Champions League winners\u2019 medal in his cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will face Japanese giants Kashima Antlers in ACL final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis captain Jalal Hosseini is going to bid farewell to his professional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,91,172,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-persepolis","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1120,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33930","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=33930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33932,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33930\/revisions\/33932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}