{"id":30686,"date":"2018-02-06T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T18:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30686"},"modified":"2018-02-06T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T23:26:51","slug":"former-juventus-striker-baba-thiam-to-join-esteghlal-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/02\/06\/former-juventus-striker-baba-thiam-to-join-esteghlal-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Juventus striker Baba Thiam to join Esteghlal Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Senegalese striker Mame Baba Thiam has reportedly reached an agreement with Iranian football club Esteghlal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old player has travelled to Tehran to finalize his contract with the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Mame Baba Thiam started his playing career at Italian giant Inter Milan in 2011 and has also played at Avellino, South Tyrol, Lanciano, Juventus and Empoli.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal also completed the signing of Macedonian central midfielder Bojan Najdenov on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are going to strengthen 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, Senegalese striker Mame Baba Thiam has reportedly reached an agreement with Iranian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,91,165,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1776,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686","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=30686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30693,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686\/revisions\/30693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}