{"id":24134,"date":"2016-01-25T16:06:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T00:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24134"},"modified":"2016-01-25T16:06:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T00:06:20","slug":"morteza-pouraliganji-joins-qatari-club-al-sadd-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/01\/25\/morteza-pouraliganji-joins-qatari-club-al-sadd-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Morteza Pouraliganji joins Qatari club Al Sadd [Confirmed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iranian player Morteza Pouraliganji has signed with the Qatari professional association soccer club Al Sadd, which plays in the first level Qatar Stars League. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old, who played for Iran men\u2019s national soccer team at the 2015 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup in Australia last January, has signed a four-month contract with the Doha-based club Al Sadd until the end of the season. No information about the fee of the deal was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>He had traveled to the Qatari capital city of Doha several days ago to undergo medical examinations. <\/p>\n<p>Pouraliganji started his professional playing career with Naft Tehran Football Club in 2010, and netted his first senior goal in a 4-1 victory over Paykan Football Club at the Persian Gulf Pro League, also known as Iran Pro League (IPL), the next year.<\/p>\n<p>On February 25, 2015, the Iranian soccer player joined Chinese Super League club Tianjin Teda on a one\u2013year contract, and made his debut for the club in a match against Henan Jianye on April 8, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Pouraliganji dismissed several offers from European and Chinese soccer clubs, and instead opted to establish himself in Al Sadd line-up to play alongside Spanish professional footballer Xavier Hern\u00e1ndez Creus, commonly known as Xavi.<\/p>\n<p>Xavi currently plays as a central midfielder for Al Sadd Sports Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; DOHA, Iranian player Morteza Pouraliganji has signed with the Qatari professional association soccer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2633,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24134","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=24134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}