{"id":17118,"date":"2014-01-25T20:18:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T04:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17118"},"modified":"2014-01-26T03:21:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T11:21:36","slug":"players-abroad-week-in-review-jan-20-jan-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/01\/25\/players-abroad-week-in-review-jan-20-jan-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Players abroad week in review: Jan 20-Jan 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 <strong>This week there were several Iranian legionnaires in action, playing in Europe and Asia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday January 20, Team Melli captain <strong>Javad Nekounam<\/strong> made his debut in Kuwait League where he played the full 90 minutes to help his new team Al Kuwait win 4-0 over Al Nasr.\u00a0 Yesterday, Nekounam made his second appearance against Al Shabab, again played 90 minutes and helped his team win 3-0 and remain on top of the ladder with 37 points.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday January 23, Iranian youngster <strong>Sardar Azmoun<\/strong> came on as a substitute in the 46th minute in a friendly game played in Belek. The match was part of Rubin Kazan&#8217;s training camp in Turkey. With having only been on the field for 10 minutes, Azmoun assisted the goal scored by Ruslan Mukhametshin, to tie Bulgarian side Ludogorets 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Friday January 24, <strong>Mojtaba Jabbari<\/strong> played 75 minutes in Al Ahli&#8217;s 3-0 thumping of Al Muaither. While yesterday <strong>Pejman Montazeri<\/strong> played the full 90 minutes in Umm Salal\u2019s 2-1 victory over Al Wakrah.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Malaysia, <strong>Alireza Abbasfard<\/strong> scored versus Penang, on his debut in Malaysia FA Cup on Tuesday January 21. Also yesterday he made his second appearance in Malaysia Super League, he played 80 minutes in 1-0 defeat by Kelantan FA. The match was held at Sarawak Stadium Kuching. Abbasfard&#8217;s best chance was his 64th minute header that went over the cross bar.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there were some bad news this week regarding Masoud Shojaei&#8217;s waist injury which was reported on January 23 throughout Iranian press. However, Shojaei played 45 minutes in Las Palmas&#8217; 0-2 loss to Alaves on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>With regards to player transfers, Reza Ghoochannejhad (Standard Liege) is still on the look out for a club. Also Steven Beitashour (formerly of San Jose Earthquakes) and 2013 Tajikistan Championship&#8217;s top scorer Hossein Sohrabi (formerly of Istiqlol Dushanbe) remain club less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com \u2013 This week there were several Iranian legionnaires in action, playing in Europe and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":3911,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}