{"id":33675,"date":"2018-10-09T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T17:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33675"},"modified":"2018-10-09T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T17:25:31","slug":"alhaji-gero-i-couldnt-say-no-to-iran-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/10\/09\/alhaji-gero-i-couldnt-say-no-to-iran-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Alhaji Gero: I couldn\u2019t say no to Iran transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ScoreNigeria &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former U20 international striker Alhaji Gero has admitted to SCORENigeria he could not resist a transfer from Europe to Iran because of the worth of the deal.<\/strong><br \/>\nIn August, Alhaji Gero, 24, quit Swedish club Ostersunds FK to sign a three-year contract with Iranian club Esteghlal.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed to SCORENigeria he had bids from several clubs in Europe, but still chose to move to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEsteghlal gave me a good contract that I could not say no to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, I had like four good clubs in Europe after me, but I just wanted to try something new because I have made a name for myself in Europe and so my name will always be on the list of clubs there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now I\u2019m just enjoying Iran and football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Enugu Rangers striker has already secured Swedish nationality and so a return to Europe at some point cannot be completely ruled out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ScoreNigeria &#8211; TEHRAN, Former U20 international striker Alhaji Gero has admitted to SCORENigeria he could&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,91,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33675","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-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1006,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33675","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=33675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33677,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33675\/revisions\/33677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}