{"id":19881,"date":"2014-12-27T10:35:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19881"},"modified":"2014-12-27T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T19:36:38","slug":"german-helmke-close-to-irans-esteghlal-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/12\/27\/german-helmke-close-to-irans-esteghlal-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"German Helmke close to Iran&#8217;s Esteghlal deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>German midfielder Hendrik Frank Helmke will likely join Iran\u2019s popular football team, Esteghlal, within a few days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old midfielder started his professional career with VfL Maschen.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/tehrantimes.com\/cache\/multithumb_thumbs\/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_edim_9-2%2879%29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Helmke has also played in German clubs L\u00fcneburger SK and VfB L\u00fcbeck, Malaysian Sabah FA, and Finland\u2019s FF Jaro.<\/p>\n<p>After a spell with Jaro, Helmke joined the Norwegian Tippeligaen side Troms\u00f8 on a free transfer in August 2013 and signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with the club.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Iranian media, Helmke has reached an initial agreement with the Tehran-based club.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Padideh of Mashhad striker Reza Enayati is set to join Esteghlal in the winter transfer windows.<\/p>\n<p>Enayati will reunite with his former coach Amir Ghalenoei in Esteghlal, where he scored 55 goals in 78 games across two different spells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, German midfielder Hendrik Frank Helmke will likely join Iran\u2019s popular football team,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":17384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3804,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19881","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=19881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}