{"id":32924,"date":"2018-07-28T12:12:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T19:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32924"},"modified":"2018-07-28T12:12:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T19:12:55","slug":"esteghlal-looking-to-shojaei-as-djeparovs-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/07\/28\/esteghlal-looking-to-shojaei-as-djeparovs-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal looking to Shojaei as Djeparov&#8217;s replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team is going to sign Iran national football team captain Masoud Shojaei.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Server Djeparov left Esteghlal to join Kazakhstan\u2019s Zhetysu and the Blues are going to sign Shojaei as the Uzbek\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal, who was held to a goalless draw by Paykan in Iran Professional League on Friday, will have to face Qatar\u2019s Al Sadd in AFC Champions League quarters next month.<\/p>\n<p>Shojaei has most recently played for AEK Athens but he will leave the Greek team.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old midfielder has been also linked with Cypriot Apollon Smyrnis and Indian club Goa.<\/p>\n<p>Shojae is the only Iranian player who represented his country in three World Cups.<\/p>\n<p>He has also played for Iran in three Asian Cups.<\/p>\n<p>Shojaei played 68 minutes in the match against Morocco in the 2018 World Cup but was an unused substitute in two matches against Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team is going to sign Iran national football team captain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,89,165,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32924","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-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":647,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32924","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=32924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32926,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32924\/revisions\/32926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}