{"id":28484,"date":"2017-06-27T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28484"},"modified":"2017-06-27T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:37:29","slug":"khaled-shafiei-joins-fc-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/06\/27\/khaled-shafiei-joins-fc-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Khaled Shafiei joins FC Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SEOUL, <strong>Khaled Shafiei became the first Iranian to appear in the K-League Classic after signing a deal with FC Seoul. The 30-year-old defender has joined the K-League Classic side from Tractor Sazi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shafiei, 29, joined Fajr Sepasi in 2010 after spending the previous season in Kowsar.  He then went to Naft Tehran and after a short period, he moved to Tabriz to play for Gostaresh Foolad and Tractor Sazi respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Shafiei then joined FC Seoul on 25 June 2017, becoming the first Iranian player in the K-League.<\/p>\n<p>With Khaled Shafiei as the central defender, FC Seoul will be able to build a stronger shield with the existing defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Shafiei had been also linked with a move to Iranian giants Persepolis and Esteghlal.<\/p>\n<p>The K League Classic is one of South Korea&#8217;s professional association football leagues. At the top of the South Korean football league system and currently contested by 12 clubs, it is the country&#8217;s highest level of football competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SEOUL, Khaled Shafiei became the first Iranian to appear in the K-League&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,89,91,165,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":5728,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28484","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=28484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}