{"id":12262,"date":"2011-06-30T06:21:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T13:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/30\/toure-leaves-sepaha-to-join-ajman\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T06:21:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T13:21:02","slug":"toure-leaves-sepaha-to-join-ajman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/30\/toure-leaves-sepaha-to-join-ajman\/","title":{"rendered":"Toure leaves Sepahan for UAE&#8217;s Ajman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Toure_shocked\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Toure_shocked.jpg\" height=\"518\" width=\"337\" \/>GOAL &#8211; ESFAHAN, <strong>Prolific Senegalese striker Ibrahima Toure has left Iran champions Sepahan ahead of the AFC Champions League quarter-finals for UAE club Ajman. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old forward was not offered a new contract by Sepahan having scored 36 goals in 51 appearances for the club and guiding them to the 2010-11 Iranian Pro League title.<\/p>\n<p>Toure also played a major part in helping Sepahan reach the 2011 AFC Champions League quarter-finals where they will meet Qatar club Al Sadd in September.<\/p>\n<p>Ajman, who have just been promoted to the UAE top flight, are hoping to challenge for the title in the 2011-12 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a very, very good striker and we are expecting a lot from him in the forthcoming season,\u201d said Ajman head of public relations and media Nasr Ibrahim to Sport360.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToure has a lot of experience, having won the Iranian league for Sepahan and represented the club in the AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were looking for a player with his credentials and needed a striker with a good record and he is the right man for us. We hope Ajman can have a great season with him leading our attack next season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ajman have already signed Algerian midfielder Karim Kerkar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL &#8211; ESFAHAN, Prolific Senegalese striker Ibrahima Toure has left Iran champions Sepahan ahead of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4643,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}