{"id":14245,"date":"2018-07-09T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=14245"},"modified":"2018-07-09T21:07:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:07:54","slug":"australian-defender-matthew-jurman-completes-his-move-to-al-ittihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/07\/09\/australian-defender-matthew-jurman-completes-his-move-to-al-ittihad\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian defender Matthew Jurman completes his move to Al-Ittihad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian defender Matthew Jurman has completed his move to\u00a0Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad,\u00a0the club confirmed on Monday on their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ittihad_en\/status\/1016090215490912257\">official Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jurman joins the Saudi club,\u00a0who have won the AFC Champions League twice, from K-League outfit Suwon Bluewings on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>He was a regular in the K-League last season but only played four times this year for Suwon as he recovered from minor knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old centre-back was part of the Socceroos squad at the World Cup Russia but did not feature in any match in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>With marquee player Mark Milligan\u00a0likely to resign from international football, Jurman is expected to be\u00a0a contender to partner Trent Sainsbury in defence, with the 2019 AFC Asian Cup just six months away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian defender Matthew Jurman has completed his move to\u00a0Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad,\u00a0the club confirmed on Monday on their official Twitter account. Jurman joins the Saudi club,\u00a0who have won the AFC Champions League twice, from K-League outfit Suwon Bluewings on a two-year deal. He was a regular in the K-League last season but only played four times this year for Suwon as he recovered from minor knee surgery. The 28-year-old centre-back was part of the Socceroos squad at the World Cup Russia but did not feature in any match in the group stage. With marquee player Mark Milligan\u00a0likely to resign from international football, Jurman is expected to be\u00a0a contender to partner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/07\/09\/australian-defender-matthew-jurman-completes-his-move-to-al-ittihad\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Australian defender Matthew Jurman completes his move to Al-Ittihad&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":14246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1608,110,1607,228],"class_list":["post-14245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-al-ittihad","tag-australia","tag-matthew-jurman","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}