{"id":54366,"date":"2026-01-04T19:09:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54366"},"modified":"2026-01-04T19:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:09:04","slug":"shahab-zahedi-extends-deal-with-avispa-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/01\/04\/shahab-zahedi-extends-deal-with-avispa-fukuoka\/","title":{"rendered":"Shahab Zahedi extends deal with Avispa Fukuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; FUKUOKA, <strong>Iranian forward Shahab Zahedi has signed a one-year contract extension with the Japanese J1 League side Avispa Fukuoka, the club confirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zahedi joined Avispa in 2024 from Persepolis and made an immediate impact, scoring nine goals in his debut season. However, the 31-year-old striker endured a difficult 2025 campaign, failing to find the net in Japan\u2019s top flight.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the dip in form, Avispa have opted to retain the experienced forward, extending his stay in Fukuoka for another season.<\/p>\n<p>Avispa Fukuoka is based in Hakata, Fukuoka, and currently competes in the J1 League, the highest tier of professional football in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; FUKUOKA, Iranian forward Shahab Zahedi has signed a one-year contract extension with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,212,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iranian-legionnaires","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":989,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54366","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=54366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54368,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54366\/revisions\/54368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}