{"id":25846,"date":"2016-08-17T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T18:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25846"},"modified":"2016-08-17T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T18:15:46","slug":"maritimo-terminates-contract-with-iranian-keeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/08\/17\/maritimo-terminates-contract-with-iranian-keeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Maritimo terminates contract with Iranian keeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; FUNCHAL, <strong>Portuguese side Maritimo has terminated its contract with Iranian international goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi with just six months after signing a three-and-a-half-year contract with him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old keeper joined Maritimo from Rubin Kazan in January 2016 to reuniting with his former coach Nelo Vingada.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he made four appearances in the league and conceded five goals while in the League Cup final he had a poor performance in the 6-2 defeat against Benfica.<\/p>\n<p>Haghighi expected to be Maritimo\u2019s No. 1 keeper this season as he started all the pre-season matches for the team. The latest pre-season friendly against Las Palmas didn\u2019t go well for Haghighi as he left out the starting line-up by the new head coach Paulo Cesar Gusmao.<\/p>\n<p>Following the arrival of Brazilian keeper Eduardo Gottardi and Gusmao\u2019s dissatisfaction with Haghighi\u2019s performance, the club has terminated contract with the Iranian keeper by mutual consent.<\/p>\n<p>Haghighi had loan spells at Sporting Covilha and Penafiel as well.<\/p>\n<p>Haghighi, who is currently Iran national football team first choice keeper, has represented Iran at the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; FUNCHAL, Portuguese side Maritimo has terminated its contract with Iranian international goalkeeper&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25846","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":3381,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25846","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=25846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}