{"id":23808,"date":"2016-01-07T17:11:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T01:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23808"},"modified":"2016-01-07T17:11:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T01:11:15","slug":"xavi-the-main-reason-pouraliganji-is-considering-qatari-club-al-sadd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/01\/07\/xavi-the-main-reason-pouraliganji-is-considering-qatari-club-al-sadd\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavi the main reason Pouraliganji is considering Qatari club Al sadd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian international defender Morteza Pouraliganji stated that playing alongside Xavi is the main reason he is going to accept Qatari side Al Sadd SC offer.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Pouraliganji, who joined Chinese Super League club Tianjin Teda in February 2015 from Naft Tehran, is currently a free agent after deciding not to renew his contract with the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very close to sign a contract with Al Sadd SC. I received a couple of European offers, J-League and Chinese offers but I decided to join Al Sadd,\u201d the 23-year old told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Sadd is one of the top teams in Qatar Stars League while former Barcelona midfielder Xavi is playing there. when I was a child I was a Xavi fan and now his presence in Al Sadd is one the main reasons I am going to accept its offer,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Al Sadd who is currently in fourth place of QSL table with 28 points from 15 games, signed Xavi from Barcelona with a three-year contract last summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian international defender Morteza Pouraliganji stated that playing alongside Xavi is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":23809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":2711,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23808","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=23808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}