{"id":34663,"date":"2018-12-26T10:12:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34663"},"modified":"2018-12-26T10:12:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:12:15","slug":"anthony-stokes-hopes-fans-give-him-a-good-reception-upon-tractor-sazi-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/26\/anthony-stokes-hopes-fans-give-him-a-good-reception-upon-tractor-sazi-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Stokes hopes fans give him a good reception upon Tractor Sazi return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TABRIZ, <strong>Former Celtic and Hibs forward Anthony Stokes is on his way back to Iran after coming to an agreement with Tractor Sazi and hopes that the fans give him a good reception.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irish international Stokes and ex-Kilmarnock and Motherwell forward Lee Erwin both signed for Tractor Club in the summer, but the pair left earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stokes cited family problems and Erwin insisted he was homesick, but that severely irked the Iranians, who reported the pair to FIFA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the 30-year-old has performed a U-turn and has decided to return to Tractor Sazi, according to Scottish Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he insisted he will fulfill his contract there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stokes said: &#8220;I had a very good meeting with the team coach, Mohammad Taghavi and he now has a very good understanding of my situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, I had major family problems this month which meant I had to return home,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;During my first spell at the club, these problems meant I couldn&#8217;t concentrate fully on my football and I could not concentrate. Hopefully, the fans will give me a good reception too,&#8221; Stokes concluded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TABRIZ, Former Celtic and Hibs forward Anthony Stokes is on his way back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":857,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34663","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=34663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34665,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34663\/revisions\/34665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}