{"id":35019,"date":"2019-01-15T23:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T07:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35019"},"modified":"2019-01-15T23:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T07:15:42","slug":"nigerian-forward-patrick-friday-linked-with-esteghlal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/15\/nigerian-forward-patrick-friday-linked-with-esteghlal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian forward Patrick Friday linked with Esteghlal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN,  <strong>Nigerian striker Patrick Friday Eze has been linked with a move to Iranian popular football team Esteghlal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 27-year-old forward will reportedly join Esteghlal in Antalya camp to participate in the training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday started his playing career at Africa Sports in 2011 and has also played at Serbian clubs Napredak Kru\u0161evac and Mladost Lu\u010dani, Emirati Al-Fujairah and Turkish football team Konyaspor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal coach Winfried Schaefer is going to sign him as a replacement for Alhaji Gero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blues are preparing for the second half of the Iran Professional League (IPL) season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal is a favorite to win IPL title as the team sits fifth in the table, six points behind the leader Sepahan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal will start the IPL season second half with a match against Paykan on February 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Nigerian striker Patrick Friday Eze has been linked with a move to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,165,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":643,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35019","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=35019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35021,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35019\/revisions\/35021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}