{"id":42359,"date":"2021-05-08T07:25:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T14:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42359"},"modified":"2021-05-08T07:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T14:25:35","slug":"ashkan-dejagah-open-to-bundesliga-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/05\/08\/ashkan-dejagah-open-to-bundesliga-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashkan Dejagah open to Bundesliga return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TABRIZ, <strong>Iran international midfielder Ashkan Dejagah has revealed that he wants to return to Bundesliga.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 34-year-old player currently plays for Iranian team Tractor but his deal expires at the end of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with Sport Bild, Dejagah has shown his interest in returning to German football. He was part of the Wolfsburg team who won Bundesliga in 2009. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt would be great to play for a German professional club once again,\u201d Dejagah said. \u201cI am open to everything. In fact, I am still in top shape even at 34.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dejagah also pays tribute to his former coach Felix Magath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe taught me that success doesn&#8217;t come easy. To be honest, I owe my career to Magath. I am grateful to God every day that I had this coach at the age of 19. He was also my coach in Fulham,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dejagah started his footballing career at Hertha Berlin in 2004. He wished Hertha Berlin sporting director Fredi Bobic the best, whose team are on brink of relegation from Bundesliga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was lucky enough to be able to play and train with Fredi in Berlin. He&#8217;s a great guy and showed in Eintracht Frankfurt what he can do with a club. It is also crucial that he really loves Berlin and Hertha. I wish him all the best,\u201d explained Dejagah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TABRIZ, Iran international midfielder Ashkan Dejagah has revealed that he wants to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1198,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42359","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=42359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42361,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42359\/revisions\/42361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}