{"id":33003,"date":"2018-08-02T08:28:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33003"},"modified":"2018-08-02T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:28:41","slug":"tractor-sazi-drop-bombshell-signs-masoud-shojaei-and-ashkan-dejagah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/08\/02\/tractor-sazi-drop-bombshell-signs-masoud-shojaei-and-ashkan-dejagah\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor Sazi drop bombshell, signs Masoud Shojaei and Ashkan Dejagah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TABRIZ, <strong>Tractor Sazi football team have dropped bombshell by signing Iran national football team captains Ashkan Dejagah and Masoud Shojaei.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dejagah and Shojaei have joined the Iranian team on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian captains had already refused to join Tractor Sazi but Wednesday night penned their contracts with the Tabriz based football team.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor Sazi have not won Iran Professional League (IPL) so far and are hopeful of ending title drought under Welshman John Toshack.<\/p>\n<p>Dejagah, 32, was under contract with the English second tier Nottingham Forest last season.<\/p>\n<p>The attacking midfielder was a member of Iran football team in the 2018 World Cup but remained an unused substitute due to the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Shojaei, who played for AEK Athens last season, represented Iran national team in the World Cup in their first match against Morocco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TABRIZ, Tractor Sazi football team have dropped bombshell by signing Iran national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33003","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-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1529,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33003","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=33003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33005,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33003\/revisions\/33005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}