{"id":19080,"date":"2014-08-18T10:38:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19080"},"modified":"2014-08-18T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:38:38","slug":"tehrans-reds-sign-michael-umana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/08\/18\/tehrans-reds-sign-michael-umana\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran&#8217;s Reds sign Michael Umana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football club announced the signing of Costa Rican defender Michael Umana on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Umana has joined Persepolis on a two-year contract for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p>He will wear the No 4 shirt at Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to join Persepolis and I am happy too to wear No 4 shirt since this is my favorite number,\u201d Umana said.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old player was part of Costa Rica football team in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, where they defeated Uruguay 3\u20131 and Italy 1\u20130 to qualify for the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>Umana converted Costa Rica&#8217;s decisive fifth kick in a 5\u20133 penalty shootout against Greece in round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Umana started his career in Carmelita and has also played at Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA, Costa Rican clubs Brujas and Saprissa and Guatemalan club Comunicaciones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football club announced the signing of Costa Rican defender Michael Umana&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":19068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3569,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080","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=19080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}