{"id":30668,"date":"2018-02-04T14:16:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T22:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30668"},"modified":"2018-02-04T14:16:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T22:16:14","slug":"bojan-najdenov-on-the-verge-of-joining-esteghlal-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/02\/04\/bojan-najdenov-on-the-verge-of-joining-esteghlal-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"Bojan Najdenov on the verge of joining Esteghlal Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Macedonian central midfielder Bojan Najdenov has been linked with a move to Iranian football club Esteghlal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old has traveled to Tehran to undergo a medical examination.<\/p>\n<p>Free agent Najdenov most recently played at the Egyptian club Smouha Sporting Club.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroonian strikers Christian Bekamenga, Yves Ekwalla Herman, Portuguese forward Yazalde Gomes Pinto, Nigerian Salisu Abdullahi &#8220;Alhaji&#8221; Gero and had been already linked with Esteghlal.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues need to strengthen their team for the 2018 AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal has been drawn along with Al Rayyan of Qatar, Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia and Al Ain of the UAE in Group D of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal will meet Al Rayyan of Qatar on Feb. 13 in Doha in its opening match.<\/p>\n<p>Winfried Schafer\u2019s team also sits sixth in Iran Professional League, 19 points behind pacesetter Persepolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Macedonian central midfielder Bojan Najdenov has been linked with a move to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":2639,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30668","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=30668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30670,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30668\/revisions\/30670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}