{"id":22298,"date":"2015-08-04T14:01:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T21:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22298"},"modified":"2015-08-04T14:01:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T21:01:39","slug":"i-had-tempting-offers-alireza-jahanbakhsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/08\/04\/i-had-tempting-offers-alireza-jahanbakhsh\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I had tempting offers&#8221; &#8211; Alireza Jahanbakhsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; NIJMEGEN, <strong>Iranian international winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh says that he has had tempting offers from the several teams but preferred to join AZ Alkmaar.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Jahanbakhsh joined Dutch club AZ Alkmaar on a five-year contract on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>He was voted the best player of the 2014-15 Jupiler League in May after an impressive season with NEC Nijmegen in the Dutch second division. <\/p>\n<p>Jahanbakhsh had already been linked with FC Groningen, Heerenveen, Club Brugge, Standard Liege, Norwich City and Celtic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not an easy decision to make because I had several tempting offers; however I am happy to join AZ Alkmaar since the team will play in Europa League,\u201d Jahanbakhsh said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank NEC Nijmegen\u2019s officials since I had two wonderful years in the team,\u201d the 21-year-old winger added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; NIJMEGEN, Iranian international winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh says that he has had tempting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":2871,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22298","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}