{"id":25647,"date":"2016-07-17T10:18:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T17:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25647"},"modified":"2016-07-17T10:20:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T17:20:22","slug":"esteghlal-favorite-to-win-title-says-new-signing-robson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/07\/17\/esteghlal-favorite-to-win-title-says-new-signing-robson\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal favorites to win title, says new signing Robson de Paula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal has announced the signing of Brazilian defender Robson Januario de Paula on a season-loan deal from Esporte Clube Bahia on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 22-year old defender caught the eye of Alireza Mansourian at Armenia training camp which led to signing a contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the first day the head coach was satisfied with my performance during the training sessions, but I preferred to take part in Armenia camp and then sign the contract,\u201d Robson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEsteghlal has great defenders playing at a high level but I will try my best to earn a place in the starting line-up. According to what I\u2019ve heard about Iran Professional League, Esteghlal is the favorite to win the title next season,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal has already signed Arash Afshin, Bakhtiar Rahmani, Ali Ghorbani, Vouria Ghafouri, Hossein Kanaanizadegan, Kaveh Rezaei and Farshid Bagheri in the transfer window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal has announced the signing of Brazilian defender Robson Januario de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1859,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647","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=25647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}