{"id":25688,"date":"2016-07-20T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T23:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25688"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T23:31:51","slug":"i-was-looking-for-a-new-challenge-machine-sazis-manuel-muniz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/07\/20\/i-was-looking-for-a-new-challenge-machine-sazis-manuel-muniz\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I was looking for a new challenge&#8221;: Machine Sazi&#8217;s Manuel Muniz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TABRIZ, <strong>Spanish goalkeeper Manuel Fernandez Muniz has been impressed by the way how Machine Sazi fans have greeted him at Tabriz airport.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t expecting such a fantastic welcome by the fans at the airport. I hope I could make these fans happy with my performance into custody. I know Machine Sazi is one the oldest clubs in Iran and has a lot of passionate fans,\u201d Muniz told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was looking for a new challenge in my career and as I\u2019ve never played outside of Spain before, I accepted Machine Sazi\u2019s offer,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know so much about Iranian football before I came here, I just knew Javad Nekounam who has played in La Liga,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year old keeper who has previously played for Sporting Gijon, Recreativo, Alcaron and Alaves made eight appearances for Deportivo last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TABRIZ, Spanish goalkeeper Manuel Fernandez Muniz has been impressed by the way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1965,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25688","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=25688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}