{"id":18964,"date":"2014-08-05T22:04:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T05:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18964"},"modified":"2014-08-05T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T05:11:40","slug":"iranian-teenage-midfielder-cleared-to-join-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/08\/05\/iranian-teenage-midfielder-cleared-to-join-atletico-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian teenage midfielder cleared to join Atletico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian midfield talent Saeid Ezzatollahi has signed a precontract with Spanish champions Atletico Madrid and will sign a 5-year-deal after undergoing medical tests in Spain&#8217;s capital.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the 17-year-old&#8217;s current club Malavan Anzali and Atletico agreed on an undisclosed transfer fee, Ezzatollahi signed the precontract and is currently waiting for his visa to travel to Madrid and sign a one-year-contract with Atletico&#8217;s u-19 including an option for a four-year extension as professional player in the senior team.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer is managed by Iranian agents Alireza Paykan and Mohsen Haghshenas of Dutch &#8216;Driessens Global Sports Management&#8217;. The duo is currently also representing some other young Iranian talents and are in talks with clubs from Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Ezzatollahi, a tall defensive midfielder, debuted in Iran&#8217;s Pro League in 2012 and has captained Iran at the 2013 u-17 World Cup, reaching the knockout stage after draws with Argentina and Canada as well as a win over Austria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian midfield talent Saeid Ezzatollahi has signed a precontract with Spanish champions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":18907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":8950,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18964","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=18964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}