{"id":18909,"date":"2014-07-27T13:03:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T20:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18909"},"modified":"2014-07-27T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T20:05:45","slug":"fc-penafiel-eye-alireza-haghighi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/07\/27\/fc-penafiel-eye-alireza-haghighi\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Penafiel eye Alireza Haghighi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; PENAFIEL, <strong>Portuguese first league side FC Penafiel are eager to recruit Iran&#8217;s World Cup starting goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi from Rubin Kazan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The newly promoted club are looking for a goalkeeper and could sign the 26-year-old as early as next week, according Portuguese media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The former Persepolis keeper had signed a contract with Rubin in 2012, but never played a competitive match for the Russians. He returned to Persepolis on loan in 2013, but after failing to get past veteran goalkeeper Nilsson there, penned a six-months deal with Portuguese second league side Sporting Covilha to get match praxis and regain form ahead of World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>His good performances there earned him the starting goalkeeper position for Iran at the 2014 World Cup, during which he remained flawless.<\/p>\n<p>Although his contract with Rubin is valid until 2015, Haghighi is likely to leave the club where veteran Ryzhnikov occupies the fixed spot between the posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; PENAFIEL, Portuguese first league side FC Penafiel are eager to recruit Iran&#8217;s World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":18609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":5597,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909","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=18909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}