{"id":16536,"date":"2013-12-01T04:16:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T12:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16536"},"modified":"2013-12-01T04:16:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T12:16:32","slug":"afshin-esmaeilzadeh-being-tested-by-benfica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/12\/01\/afshin-esmaeilzadeh-being-tested-by-benfica\/","title":{"rendered":"Afshin Esmaeilzadeh being tested by Benfica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; LISBON, <strong>Afshin Esmaeilzadeh is being tested by Portuguese giants, SL Benfica.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year old and former Persepolis man will train with the Lisbon-based club, and will have his performance assessed by the coaching and technical staff. He will be training with Benfica\u2019s B team.<\/p>\n<p>Tadeu Martins, Esmaeilzadeh\u2019s Portugal-based agent, was able to help land Esmaeilzadeh the opportunity to impress one of Portugal\u2019s top clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Esmaeilzadeh was the captain of Iran\u2019s u-16 side that won the AFC u-16 Championships. He is currently on loan at the Segunda Liga\u2019s S.C. Beira-Mar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; LISBON, Afshin Esmaeilzadeh is being tested by Portuguese giants, SL Benfica. The 21-year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":4525,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536","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\/30211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}