{"id":35347,"date":"2019-01-31T14:15:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T22:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35347"},"modified":"2019-01-31T14:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T22:15:01","slug":"esteghlal-eyes-south-african-ayanda-patosi-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/31\/esteghlal-eyes-south-african-ayanda-patosi-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal eyes South African Ayanda Patosi [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>\u00a0Iranian top-flight football club Esteghlal has set its sights on signing South African midfielder Ayanda Patosi.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 26-year-old player is a member of Cape Town City at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patosi signed a six-year contract with Lokeren in May 2011 and returned to South Africa in June 2017 to join Cape Town City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal has completed signing of two new players in the recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blues signed Omid Noorafkan on loan from Charleroi and Esma\u00ebl Gon\u00e7alves \u201cIsma\u201d from Pakhtakor Tashkent.<\/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, \u00a0Iranian top-flight football club Esteghlal has set its sights on signing South&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,92,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1210,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35347","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=35347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35349,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35347\/revisions\/35349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}