{"id":33196,"date":"2018-08-19T20:33:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T03:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33196"},"modified":"2018-08-19T20:33:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T03:33:56","slug":"morteza-pouraliganji-joins-club-with-strong-leeds-united-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/08\/19\/morteza-pouraliganji-joins-club-with-strong-leeds-united-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Morteza Pouraliganji joins club with strong Leeds United links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HITC &#8211; GLASGOW, <strong>Pouraliganji is said to have featured on the radar of Leeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Morteza Pouraliganji has found a new club &#8211; just days after the Iranian defender was said to feature on Leeds United&#8217;s radar.<\/p>\n<p>Previously a free agent after leaving Al Sadd, Pouraliganji announced on Instagram yesterday (Saturday) that he has signed for KAS Eupen.<\/p>\n<p>But that may not be the last those of a Leeds persuasion hear of the 26-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian side&#8217;s name is one that should be familiar to many Whites fans, with the two clubs linked via their association with the Aspire Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The Qatari institution sponsor Eupen and employ Ivan Bravo, the Leeds board member, as director general.<\/p>\n<p>The names of both clubs were thrown together curiously earlier this year, when Eupen announced the signing of Yuto Tokoyawa from Leeds &#8211; despite the Japanese striker having no known association with the Championship side.<\/p>\n<p>And Pouraliganji&#8217;s move allows Leeds to keep a closer eye on the player, as he takes his first steps into European football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HITC &#8211; GLASGOW, Pouraliganji is said to have featured on the radar of Leeds United&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2050,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33196","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=33196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33198,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33196\/revisions\/33198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}