{"id":35162,"date":"2019-01-23T09:57:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35162"},"modified":"2019-01-23T09:57:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:57:12","slug":"ipl-esmael-goncalves-linked-with-esteghlal-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/23\/ipl-esmael-goncalves-linked-with-esteghlal-report\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Esmael Goncalves linked with Esteghlal [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Bissau-Guinean striker Esmael Goncalves has been linked with a move to Iranian football club Esteghlal<\/strong><g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/g><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">Iranian<\/g> media reports suggest that the 27-year-old striker has negotiated with Esteghlal officials in Turkey\u2019s training camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goncalves started his playing career in Nice and has also played at Portuguese club Rio Ave, Scottish club Heart of Midlothian and Uzbekistan\u2019s &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pakhtakor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though born in the Guinea-Bissau, Goncalves is a naturalized citizen of Portugal. He has represented Portugal at under-17 level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;In 2010, he was called up to the Portugal under-20 team to participate in training sessions as the team was preparing for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gon\u00e7alves, however, showed up to the camp out of shape and was, ultimately, not considered for the tournament by coach Il\u00eddio Vale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 22 March 2018, Goncalves made his debut for Guinea-Bissau starting in a friendly match against Burkina Faso, where Guinea-Bissau suffered a 2-0 defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghalal is preparing for the second half of the Iran Professional League (IPL) season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team 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, Bissau-Guinean striker Esmael Goncalves has been linked with a move to Iranian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,165,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35162","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":683,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35162","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=35162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35164,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35162\/revisions\/35164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}