{"id":13171,"date":"2012-09-30T06:12:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T13:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/09\/30\/ferydoon-zandi-joins-al-ahli-of-qatar\/"},"modified":"2012-09-30T06:12:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T13:12:06","slug":"ferydoon-zandi-joins-al-ahli-of-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/09\/30\/ferydoon-zandi-joins-al-ahli-of-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferydoon Zandi joins Al Ahli of Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Zandi_azin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Zandi_azin.jpg\" height=\"268\" width=\"300\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Esteghlal midfielder Ferydoon Zandi penned a deal with second division Qatari football club Al Ahli on Saturday.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The Al Ahli\u2019s officials signed a contract with Zandi after Brazilian Daniel Rossi da Silva apologized for not joining the team. &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The 33-year-old was a member of the Iranian football team in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Zarandi has played for Bundesliga Kaiserslautern 45 times and scored six goals.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>He joined Apollon Limassol of Cyprus in 2007 and also played in Olympiakos Nicosia and Alki Larnaca of the country. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran\u2019s Steel Azin signed him in 2009 but the Tehran-based team relegated from the professional league two years later. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Zandi joined Esteghlal in August 2011 and helped the team win Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; DOHA, Esteghlal midfielder Ferydoon Zandi penned a deal with second division Qatari&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":5485,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13171","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=13171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}