{"id":33060,"date":"2018-08-08T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33060"},"modified":"2018-08-08T10:05:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:05:07","slug":"nigerian-alhaji-gero-joins-esteghlal-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/08\/08\/nigerian-alhaji-gero-joins-esteghlal-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Alhaji Gero joins Esteghlal [Confirmed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Nigerian striker Salisu Abdullahi &#8220;Alhaji&#8221; Gero joined Iran\u2019s Esteghlal football team on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Mame Thiam\u2019s departure, the Blues signed the striker to strengthen their frontline.<\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Gero, who has most recently played in \u00d6stersunds in the Allsvenskan, Sweden\u2019s top flight, has joined Esteghlal on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p>Gero made his debut for the Nigeria national under-20 football team at the eight-nation tournament in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal has recently signed contracts with Iraqi attacking midfielder Humam Tariq Faraj Naoush and German midfielder Markus Neumayr.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1397051716321027614972554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1397051716321027614972554.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1397051716321027614972554-144x100.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1397051716321027614972554-350x244.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1397051716321027614972554-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1397051716321027614972554-700x487.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Nigerian striker Salisu Abdullahi &#8220;Alhaji&#8221; Gero joined Iran\u2019s Esteghlal football team on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33060","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":1140,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060","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=33060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33063,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060\/revisions\/33063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}