{"id":30222,"date":"2017-12-27T10:02:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30222"},"modified":"2017-12-27T10:12:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T18:12:57","slug":"masoud-shojaei-joins-aek-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/12\/27\/masoud-shojaei-joins-aek-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"Masoud Shojaei close to completing move to AEK Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ATHENS, <strong>Iranian international attacking midfielder Masoud Shojaei will soon join AEK Athens according to Greek sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old player is tipped to join the Greek giant until the end of the season, with the option to negotiate a further year.<\/p>\n<p>Shojaei has been released from Panionios and AEK Spanish coach Manolo Jimenez considers him as an ideal replacement for captain Petros Mantalos, who has missed the remainder of 2017-18 season because of cruciate ligament injury.<\/p>\n<p>Shojaei started his playing career with Sanat Naft Abadan in 2002 and has also played in Saipa, Al-Sharjah, CA Osasuna, UD Las Palmas, Al-Shahania Sports Club and Al-Gharafa Sports Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ATHENS, Iranian international attacking midfielder Masoud Shojaei will soon join AEK Athens according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30222","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":1328,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30222","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=30222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}