{"id":35215,"date":"2019-01-26T13:35:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T21:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35215"},"modified":"2019-01-26T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T21:35:03","slug":"esteghlal-confirm-two-january-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/26\/esteghlal-confirm-two-january-signings\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal confirm two January signings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team from Iran have completed two signings in the January transfer window on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blues signed an 18-month deal with Bissau-Guinean forward Esmael Goncalves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The details of the contract have not been revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 27-year-old striker has joined Esteghlal from Uzbekistan\u2019s Pakhtakor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goncalves started his playing career in Nice and has also played at Portuguese club Rio Ave, Cypriot Anorthosis Famagusta, Greek Veria and Scotland\u2019s Heart of Midlothian.<\/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>Omid Noorafkan also joined Esteghlal on a loan deal until the end of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 22-year-old defensive midfielder joined Belgian First Division A club Charleroi but returned to his former club on loan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team from Iran have completed two signings in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":651,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35215","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=35215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35217,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35215\/revisions\/35217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}