{"id":22174,"date":"2015-07-17T22:19:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T05:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22174"},"modified":"2015-07-17T22:22:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T05:22:24","slug":"ezatollahi-closes-in-on-rostov-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/07\/17\/ezatollahi-closes-in-on-rostov-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezatollahi closes in on Rostov deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; ROSTOV, <strong>Iranian gem Saeid Ezatollahi is about to leave Atletico Madrid&#8217;s youth team for the Russian Premier League, various sources report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old joined the Spanish giants&#8217; u-19 from Malavan Anzali last summer and knew to impress there, however, wasn&#8217;t keen of spending the next season in third division with the B team.<\/p>\n<p>Despite interest from Spain and Portugal, the talented defensive midfielder apparently opts for the highest Russian League, where he will unite with another hot prospect from Iran, Sardar Azmoun.<\/p>\n<p>Ezatollahi debuted for Iran&#8217;s senior national team last month, after already captaining the u-17 and u-19.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to fill the gap of former national team skipper Javad Nekounam, who retired from international football in spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; ROSTOV, Iranian gem Saeid Ezatollahi is about to leave Atletico Madrid&#8217;s youth team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":21503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":3460,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174","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=22174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}