{"id":25712,"date":"2016-07-22T15:31:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T22:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25712"},"modified":"2016-07-22T15:31:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T22:31:41","slug":"masoud-shojaei-joins-panionios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/07\/22\/masoud-shojaei-joins-panionios\/","title":{"rendered":"Masoud Shojaei joins Panionios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; ATHENS, <strong>Iranian midfielder Masoud Shojaei signed with Greek Super League team Panionios.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nShojaei returns to European football after joining the Athens based club from Qatar&#8217;s Al Gharafa.<\/p>\n<p>He will join up with fellow Team Melli striker Karim Ansarifard, who also extended his contract with the Greek club.<\/p>\n<p>According to several Greek sources, Shojaei signed a one-year contract with the option to extend for an additional year. <\/p>\n<p>Masoud Shojaei has been an integral member of the Iranian National Team and has enjoyed a fruitful career plying his trade with several clubs ranging from the Iranian Pro League, La Liga and most recently the Qatar Stars League. He was also a member of the Iranian National Team that featured in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Panionios, who finished 5th in the Greek Super League last seasons, qualified for the Europa League play-offs this year. However, due to financial and licensing issues, UEFA did not clear the club to participate in the upcoming annual tournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; ATHENS, Iranian midfielder Masoud Shojaei signed with Greek Super League team Panionios. Shojaei&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25712","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":2772,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25712","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=25712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}