{"id":12310,"date":"2011-07-21T05:09:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/07\/21\/esteghlal-eyes-former-real-madrid-midfielder\/"},"modified":"2011-07-21T05:09:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:09:04","slug":"esteghlal-eyes-former-real-madrid-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/07\/21\/esteghlal-eyes-former-real-madrid-midfielder\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal eyes former Real Madrid midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mehrnews.com\/mehr_media\/image\/2011\/07\/671306_orig.jpg\" height=\"461\" width=\"307\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal acting president Ali Fatollahzadeh has said that they are planning to sign former Real Madrid midfielder Francisco Pavon.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only Esteghlal has signed up good players for the coming season but also German coach Michael Henke will help our coaching staff to get good results in the Iran Professional League,\u201d Fatollahzadeh said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started our negotiations with Kuwait international midfielder Waleed Ali but have not yet reached an agreement with him. Esteghlal also is trying to sign former Real Madrid player Francisco Pavon, who currently plays for AC Arles-Avignon in France,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal captain Farhad Majidi has not participated in Esteghlal\u2019s training sessions during their recent preparation camp.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal acting president said, \u201cFrom now, Majidi has no problem to take part in the Esteghlal\u2019s training sessions. He will\u00a0retain his captaincy in the coming season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fatollahzadeh rejected any speculation that Henke will replace Esteghlal coach Parviz Mazlumi. He said: \u201cI don\u2019t know from where these absurd speculations come from.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal acting president Ali Fatollahzadeh has said that they are planning to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":5222,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}