{"id":43281,"date":"2021-08-22T07:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43281"},"modified":"2021-08-22T07:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T14:11:32","slug":"ipl-esteghlal-completes-three-new-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/08\/22\/ipl-esteghlal-completes-three-new-signings\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Esteghlal completes three new signings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football club has completed three new signings for the upcoming season of Iran Professional League (IPL).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blues have signed Saipa rising star Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh. The 21-year-old midfielder, who had been a member of the Iran U17 football team, has joined Esteghlal on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal, headed by Farhad Majidi, has also signed Foolad midfielder Zobeir Niknafs on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niknafs has previously played for Sanat Naft and Zob Ahan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, the Tehran-based football team have completed the signing of Foolad defender Aref Aghasi on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal look to bring an end to their nine-year title drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1400053020591910623449194-700x487.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1400053020591910623449194-700x487.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1400053020591910623449194-350x244.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1400053020591910623449194-144x100.jpeg 144w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1400053020591910623449194-768x535.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1400053020591910623449194.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1400053019103710623449024-700x487.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1400053019103710623449024-700x487.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1400053019103710623449024-350x244.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1400053019103710623449024-144x100.jpeg 144w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1400053019103710623449024-768x535.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1400053019103710623449024.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football club has completed three new signings for the upcoming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,165,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43281","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":1674,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43281","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=43281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43285,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43281\/revisions\/43285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}