{"id":26900,"date":"2017-01-09T16:21:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T00:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26900"},"modified":"2017-01-09T16:21:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T00:21:06","slug":"soroush-rafiei-joins-persepolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/01\/09\/soroush-rafiei-joins-persepolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Soroush Rafiei joins Persepolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Tractor Sazi international midfielder Soroush Rafiei signed a contract with Iranian popular team Persepolis on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old player has reportedly signed an 18-month contract with Persian Gulf Professional League club for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p>He will wear the No. 7 shirt in Persepolis which had previously been retired in honour of club legend Ali Parvin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEver since I was a child, I dreamed about playing for Persepolis. I am here to help my team win Iran Professional League. The Persepolis fans are the main reason I joined the team,\u201d Rafiei said after joining his favourite team.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis currently sits top of IPL table and is a favourite to qualify for the AFC Champions League group stage, where the Reds have been drawn in Group D along with Saudi Arabia giant Al Hilal and Qatari powerhouse Al Rayyan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Tractor Sazi international midfielder Soroush Rafiei signed a contract with Iranian popular&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":3661,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900","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=26900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}