{"id":54473,"date":"2026-02-04T20:21:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54473"},"modified":"2026-02-04T20:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:21:03","slug":"ali-karimi-returns-to-sepahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/02\/04\/ali-karimi-returns-to-sepahan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Karimi returns to Sepahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ISFAHAN, <strong>Sepahan football club have officially announced the return of former midfielder Ali Karimi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Karimi, who most recently played for Kayserispor of Turkey, has signed a 1.5-season contract with Sepahan following a request from Sepahan coach Moharram Navidkia and negotiations conducted by the club\u2019s CEO and board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>The former Sepahan midfielder has previously played for Esteghlal, Dinamo Zagreb and Lokomotiva Zagreb of Croatia, as well as Al-Gharafa and Al-Duhail of Qatar. He has also represented Iran at both senior and U23 national team levels.<\/p>\n<p>Karimi made 98 appearances for Sepahan across two spells over five seasons, scoring five goals for the Isfahan-based club.<\/p>\n<p>A product of Sepahan\u2019s academy, Karimi has also featured in the FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup during his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ISFAHAN, Sepahan football club have officially announced the return of former midfielder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":535,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54473","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=54473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54475,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54473\/revisions\/54475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}