{"id":34328,"date":"2018-12-01T11:23:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34328"},"modified":"2018-12-01T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T19:23:45","slug":"jalal-hosseini-bids-farewell-to-international-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/01\/jalal-hosseini-bids-farewell-to-international-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalal Hosseini bids farewell to international football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Long-serving and highly valued member of Iran national football team Jalal Hosseini finished off his international career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With less than 40 days to the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, Hosseini announce his retirement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> Was it right he was being handed another cap at all? Not at all, because Hosseini quit Team Melli.  <\/p>\n<p>Persepolis captain Hosseini bade farewell after a glittering 11-year career in national team. His international career began back in February 2007 when he debuted Team Melli in a friendly match against Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>Hosseini made 116 appearances for Iran national football team and scored eight goals as a center back.<\/p>\n<p>He represented Iran in three AFC Asian Cups (2007, 2011, 2015) as well as 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old defender was named in Iran\u2019s preliminary squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia but did not make the final 23.<\/p>\n<p>Hosseini was surprisingly dropped from the 2018 World Cup due to conflicts between Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic and Team Melli coach Carlos Queiroz.<\/p>\n<p>Hosseini helped Persepolis advance to the 2018 AFC Champions League, where the Reds came second after losing to Japan\u2019s Kashima Antlers in two final matches.<\/p>\n<p>He also played vital role in steering Persepolis to back-to-back titles in Iran Professional League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Long-serving and highly valued member of Iran national football team Jalal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,164,172,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-ipl","category-persepolis","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1189,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34328","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=34328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34330,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34328\/revisions\/34330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}