{"id":51732,"date":"2024-08-09T07:12:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T14:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51732"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T14:12:36","slug":"esteghlal-completes-signing-of-gael-kakuta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/08\/09\/esteghlal-completes-signing-of-gael-kakuta\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal completes signing of Gael Kakuta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team completed the signing of Gael Romeo Kakuta Mambenga.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old winger has joined the Iranian top-flight club from France\u2019s Ligue 2 club Amiens.<\/p>\n<p>Kakuta has penned a one-year deal with Esteghlal for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p>A youth product of RC Lens, Kakuta moved to Chelsea in 2007 and has also played in Fulham, Vitesse, Lazio and Sevilla.<\/p>\n<p>He was a French youth international and represented the nation at every age group from under-16 to under-21 levels, before switching allegiance to the DR Congo national team in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal, headed by Javad Nekounam, finished in second place in the 2023\/24 Iran Persian Gulf Professional League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team completed the signing of Gael Romeo Kakuta Mambenga&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,165,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1091,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51732","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=51732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51734,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51732\/revisions\/51734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}