{"id":34817,"date":"2019-01-04T17:10:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T01:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34817"},"modified":"2019-01-04T17:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T01:10:33","slug":"ipl-mario-budimir-close-to-joining-persepolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/04\/ipl-mario-budimir-close-to-joining-persepolis\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Mario Budimir close to joining Persepolis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian football club Persepolis have reportedly reached an agreement with Croat striker Mario Budimir.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Budimir, 32, will replace Godwin Mensha, who has been deemed as surplus to requirements in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nigerian forward has netted just two goals in the current season and has reached 1,000 minutes without scoring for Persepolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Budimir, who most recently played at&nbsp;Dinamo Zagreb, will reportedly finalize his contract with Persepolis in the next few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis served transfer ban in the last two windows and now are allowed to sign new player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian giants, who finished runners-up in the 2018 AFC Champions League, are going to strengthen for new season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis are pitted against Qatar\u2019s Al Sadd and Al Ahli of Saudi Arabia in Group D, while they want to win Iran Professional League for the third successive year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian football club Persepolis have reportedly reached an agreement with Croat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,172,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":865,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817","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=34817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34819,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817\/revisions\/34819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}