{"id":13086,"date":"2012-07-21T18:17:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T01:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/21\/nekounam-joins-esteghlal\/"},"modified":"2012-07-21T18:17:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T01:17:32","slug":"nekounam-joins-esteghlal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/21\/nekounam-joins-esteghlal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nekounam joins Esteghlal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/cache\/multithumb_thumbs\/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_edim_13-4(4).jpg\" height=\"212\" width=\"298\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Javad Nekounam joined Esteghlal football team on Saturday on a one-year contract.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The 31-year-old Iran captain was Osasuna&#8217;s highest paid player and according to the Spanish media the team has received nothing from his buy-out clause (2.5 million Euros). <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Qatari football club Al Gharafa had been interested in signing Nekounam but it appears they want to hire Australian midfielder Mark Bresciano instead.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Nekounam joined Osasuna in 2006 and played 149 matches for them, scoring 24 goals. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Esteghlal officials have already said they will sign a contract with their former striker Farhad Majidi by Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Javad Nekounam joined Esteghlal football team on Saturday on a one-year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4944,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086","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=13086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}