{"id":26724,"date":"2016-12-19T17:43:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T01:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26724"},"modified":"2016-12-19T17:43:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T01:43:30","slug":"soroush-rafiei-linked-with-aek-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/12\/19\/soroush-rafiei-linked-with-aek-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"Soroush Rafiei linked with AEK Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian international player Soroush Rafiei has been linked with a move to AEK Athens F.C in the January transfer window.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rafiei\u2019s contract with Tractor Sazi runs out in January and the player is not going to renew it with the Iranian football club.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian giants Persepolis and Esteghlal have already shown interest in signing the attacking midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Rafiei\u2019s glittering performance in the Iranian Professional League has also caught eye of the Qatari giant clubs al-Gharafa and Umm Salal.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old player started his career with Fajr Sepasi Shiraz and helped the team to promote to the 2011\u201312 Persian Gulf Cup. He later joined Foolad.<\/p>\n<p>Rafiei joined Tractor Sazi in July 2015. He has made four caps for the Iranian national football team.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek giant also wants to sign Panionios striker Karim Ansarifard in the January transfer window but the Iranian international has a release clause worth 400,000 in his contract.<\/p>\n<p>Ansarifard has been heavily linked with Olympiakos, Panathinaikos and PAOK.<\/p>\n<p>He joined Greek Superleague club Panionios from Osasuna in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Former Persepolis attacker has played 39 times for Panionios and scored 13 goals.<\/p>\n<p>He has so far amassed 54 appearances for Iran national football team, scoring 14 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian international player Soroush Rafiei has been linked with a move&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,89,91,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":2814,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26724","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=26724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}