{"id":17180,"date":"2014-01-30T12:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T20:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17180"},"modified":"2014-01-30T13:01:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T21:01:47","slug":"iran-international-signs-two-and-a-half-year-deal-at-the-valley-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/01\/30\/iran-international-signs-two-and-a-half-year-deal-at-the-valley-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Reza Ghoochannejhad signs for Charlton [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAFC.co.uk &#8211; LONDON, <strong>Charlton have completed the signing of Reza Ghoochannejhad on a two-and-a half-year deal, the club announced on Thursday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old signs from Standard Li\u00e8ge for an undisclosed fee, and becomes Charlton\u2019s fifth signing of the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>An Iran international, Ghoochannejhad has scored eight goals in 10 appearances for his country, and is expected to feature in this summer\u2019s World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to press conference on Thursday, Addicks boss Chris Powell said he was pleased to add to his attacking options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has scored goals at different levels in Belgium and Holland,\u201d said Powell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has signed as a permanent and he comes into the stable of strikers. We haven\u2019t scored enough goals this season and we have to boost that area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is hard-working and he likes to get in the areas to score goals, so we need him to do that straight away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has got pace and wins fouls, which you want to happen \u2013 especially in the attacking third. He has decent link-up play, but he wants to get in the box and in that regard you have to give him the service and create more chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is having his first day of training today [Thursday] and we will have to see how is. He will be travelling [to Wigan] and we will have a look and we will see where he is with regards to his fitness level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghoochannejhad is eligible to play in Saturday\u2019s clash with Wigan Athletic and his shirt number will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n<p>He follows the arrivals of Astrit Ajdarevi\u0107, Yohann Thuram-Ulien, Anil Ko\u00e7 and Lo\u00efc N\u00e9go during the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE! Reza Ghoochannejhad signs - Charlton Athletic\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Djb3K0oMFhI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to pronounce Reza Ghoochannejhad - Charlton Athletic\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sYZozzeYNwc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAFC.co.uk &#8211; LONDON, Charlton have completed the signing of Reza Ghoochannejhad on a two-and-a half-year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":15011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":6709,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17180","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=17180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}