{"id":34391,"date":"2018-12-06T14:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34391"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:54:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:54:34","slug":"esteghlal-striker-alhaji-gero-responds-to-fans-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/06\/esteghlal-striker-alhaji-gero-responds-to-fans-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal striker Alhaji Gero responds to fans criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal of Iran\u2019s Nigerian striker Alhji Gero has hit back at criticism he\u2019s received from the fans during his time at the club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old attacker moved to the Persian Gulf Professional League side Esteghlal from Ostersunds on a three-year contract in August.<\/p>\n<p>Gero replaced Mame Baba Thiam who scored 12 goals in 13 matches for Esteghlal.<\/p>\n<p>Gero has netted just one goal in nine matches and Esteghlal fans have criticized him in social media.<\/p>\n<p>He has been absent in Esteghlal\u2019s training over the past days and the report suggests that he will leave the team in the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my God! how can people make such a big lie about things that they have no idea. I\u2019m sick, that\u2019s why I couldn\u2019t train with the team,\u201d Gero said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal of Iran\u2019s Nigerian striker Alhji Gero has hit back at criticism&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,164,136,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1163,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34391","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=34391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34393,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34391\/revisions\/34393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}