{"id":24002,"date":"2016-01-16T11:07:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T19:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24002"},"modified":"2016-01-16T13:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T21:31:50","slug":"former-iran-captain-set-to-join-al-arabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/01\/16\/former-iran-captain-set-to-join-al-arabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Team Melli captain set to join Al Arabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Former Iranian international Javad Nekounam is set to sign a four-month contract with Qatari side Al-Arabi after a 6-month spell with Saipa.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Nekounam, who joined Saipa from Osasuna in July 2015, scored three times in 18 appearances for the team. <\/p>\n<p>The 35-year old midfielder will be the second Iranian player to be added to Al-Arabi squad after Ashkan Dejagah, who joined the club in July 2014 after two years spell in Fulham. <\/p>\n<p>Al-Arabi is currently in 6th place of Qatar Stars League with 23 points from 15 games under Italian coach Gianfranco Zola. <\/p>\n<p>Nekounam who bid farewell to international games in March 2015 is the Iranian most capped player, scoring 39 goals in 151 games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Former Iranian international Javad Nekounam is set to sign a four-month&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1900,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24002","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}