{"id":29628,"date":"2017-11-01T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T22:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29628"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T22:22:13","slug":"alireza-haghighi-linked-with-persepolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/11\/01\/alireza-haghighi-linked-with-persepolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Alireza Haghighi linked with Persepolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian international goalkeeper has been linked with a move to Persepolis football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Persepolis\u2019s 2-0 win over Saipa, their No.1 keeper Alireza Beiranvand said he has to complete military service and will most likely join Tractor Sazi in the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s certainly no love lost between the Persepolis supporters and Beiranvand after the keeper has declared his intention to leave the Iran\u2019s most popular club for many times.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Iranian media reports suggest that Persepolis tend to sign their former goalie Haghighi.<\/p>\n<p>Haghigh has always been a favorite among the Persepolis fans. The 29-year-old keeper joined the senior squad of Persepolis at the age of 16 in 2007 and remained in the club for five years before joining Russian team Rubin Kazan.<\/p>\n<p>Haghighi represented Iran in the 2014 World Cup and played three matches against Nigeria, Argentina and Bosnia and Herzegovina in group stage.<\/p>\n<p>He showed a good performance in the Argentina match where he saved shots from Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain and Sergio Aguero.<\/p>\n<p>He conceded the only goal of the match in the 91st minute when Messi dribbled inside and curled a left-footed shot past the outstretched hands of Haghighi.<\/p>\n<p>Haghighi has also played in Portuguese clubs Sporting Covilha, Penafiel and Maritimo.<\/p>\n<p>He joined Swedish football club AFC Eskilstuna in March 2017 on a one-year contract and can join Persepolis in January as a free agent player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian international goalkeeper has been linked with a move to Persepolis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,89,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29628","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-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3235,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29628","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=29628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}