{"id":50495,"date":"2024-01-25T12:20:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=50495"},"modified":"2024-01-25T12:20:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:20:11","slug":"iran-midfielder-shojaei-calls-time-on-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/01\/25\/iran-midfielder-shojaei-calls-time-on-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran midfielder Shojaei calls time on career"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Veteran Iranian football player Masoud Shojaei announced his retirement from football on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The attacking midfielder, who turns 40 in June, will be appointed as head coach of Iranian top flight football club Havadar.<\/p>\n<p>Shojae represented Iran national football team in three FIFA World Cups (2006, 2014, 2018) and four AFC Asian Cups. He played 87 times and scored eight goals for Team Melli.<\/p>\n<p>Shojai started his playing career in Abadan-based club Sanat Naft in 2002 and also played for Iranian clubs Saipa, Tractor and Nassaji,<\/p>\n<p>After playing for Emirati club Al-Sharjah, he went on to spend several seasons in Spain with Osasuna from 2008 to 2013, appearing in 112 official matches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, Veteran Iranian football player Masoud Shojaei announced his retirement from football on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":50496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1333,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50495","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\/34468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50497,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50495\/revisions\/50497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}