{"id":30677,"date":"2018-02-05T10:39:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T18:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30677"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:39:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T18:39:47","slug":"macedonian-bojan-najdenov-joins-esteghlal-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/02\/05\/macedonian-bojan-najdenov-joins-esteghlal-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"Macedonian Bojan Najdenov joins Esteghlal Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> The Iranian football club, Esteghlal, completed the signing of Macedonian central midfielder Bojan Najdenov on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old player has signed an 18-month contract with the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>The details of the Najdenov\u2019s contract have not been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Free agent Najdenov most recently played at the Egyptian club Smouha Sporting Club.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues need to strengthen their team for the 2018 AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal has been drawn along with Al Rayyan of Qatar, Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia and Al Ain of the UAE in Group D of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal will meet Al Rayyan of Qatar on Feb. 13 in Doha in its opening match.<\/p>\n<p>Winfried Schafer\u2019s team also sits sixth in Iran Professional League, 19 points behind pacesetter Persepolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iranian football club, Esteghlal, completed the signing of Macedonian central midfielder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1529,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677","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=30677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30679,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677\/revisions\/30679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}