{"id":19046,"date":"2014-08-14T03:17:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T10:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19046"},"modified":"2014-08-15T01:14:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T08:14:30","slug":"persepolis-to-sign-arsenal-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/08\/14\/persepolis-to-sign-arsenal-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis to sign Arsenal defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian club Persepolis are looking into signing former Arsenal defender Daniel Jesse Boateng, according to a report by Fars News Agency on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After struggling to get a win in the first two weeks of Iran&#8217;s Professional League, the red giants are looking to strengthen their defense line.<\/p>\n<p>Given the negotiations between Persepolis and Boateng&#8217;s agent, obtaining a visa seems to be the only factor delaying the trasnfer. Persepolis officials have sent a letter to the Iranian Consulate in London asking to facilitate the England defender&#8217;s visit to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year old defender who has previously played for Swindon Town, Oxford United and Hibernian is currently a free agent after being released by Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis are also reportedly close to sign Costa Rican defender Michael Uma\u00f1a. The 32-year old defender who was a regular starter in Costa Rica\u2019s surprise World Cup campaign is expected to arrive in Tehran in the coming days to sign a contract with the red giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian club Persepolis are looking into signing former Arsenal defender Daniel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":5283,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19046","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=19046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}