{"id":18791,"date":"2014-07-06T17:18:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T00:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18791"},"modified":"2014-07-08T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T18:57:57","slug":"esteghlal-signs-iraqi-striker-karrar-jassim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/07\/06\/esteghlal-signs-iraqi-striker-karrar-jassim\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal signs Iraqi striker Karrar Jassim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football club has signed Iraq international striker Karrar Jassim on a two-year contract.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old striker who has a previous spell in Esteghlal in 2011-12 season fired in January 2012 during mid-season after a dispute with the former midfielder and team vice-captain Mojtaba Jabbari.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues finished fifth in the league last season and the coach Amir Ghalenoie is trying to improve his squad to make his team a serious title contender again.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan midfielder Omid Ebrahimi,Tractor Sazi winger Milad Fakhreddini, Gostaresh Foolad goalkeeper Mohsen Forouzan, Armenia defender Hrayr Hovhannesi Mkoyan and Sajjad Shahbazzadeh from Saipa have already joined the Iranian football giant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football club has signed Iraq international striker Karrar Jassim on a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":5184,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18791","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=18791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}