{"id":19067,"date":"2014-08-17T19:52:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T02:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19067"},"modified":"2014-08-18T10:39:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:39:48","slug":"costa-rican-defender-on-the-verge-of-joining-persepolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/08\/17\/costa-rican-defender-on-the-verge-of-joining-persepolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rican defender on the verge of joining Persepolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Costa Rican defender Michael Uma\u00f1a is expected to complete his move to Persepolis FC after successfully passing a medical test on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis are keen to bring a successor to Jalal Hosseini who left the red giants in the summer to join Qatari club Al Ahli. Persepolis coach Ali Daei believes Uma\u00f1a would be able to fill the void left by Hosseini.<\/p>\n<p>Uma\u00f1a has previously played for Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA, Liberia Mia, Herediano and Carmelita.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year old defender was a regular starter in Costa Rica\u2019s surprise World Cup campaign in Brazil. During the round of 16, Uma\u00f1a converted Costa Rica&#8217;s decisive fifth kick in a 5\u20133 penalty shootout defeat of Greece. In the quarter-final against the Netherlands, Uma\u00f1a was one of two Costa Ricans to have his kick saved by Tim Krul in a 4\u20133 penalty shootout loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Costa Rican defender Michael Uma\u00f1a is expected to complete his move&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3516,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}