{"id":31169,"date":"2016-12-29T04:31:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T04:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31169"},"modified":"2016-12-29T04:31:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T04:31:37","slug":"east-bengal-may-recruit-moghrabi-in-asian-quota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31169","title":{"rendered":"East Bengal may recruit Moghrabi in Asian quota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-10614\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/east-bengal-i-league.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" alt=\"east bengal i league\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/east-bengal-i-league.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/east-bengal-i-league-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Kolkata: In a desperate bid to rope in a foreign player under the Asian quota, city football giants East Bengal have reportedly shown interest in signing Lebanese striker Akram Moghrabi.<\/p>\n<p>East Bengal have discarded their South Korean striker Do Dong-hyun as coach Trevor Morgan did not approve of him. Since then, the red and gold brigade have been on the lookout for a player in this bracket.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to the development told IANS on Wednesday that East Bengal are in talks with Moghrabi in order to fill up their Asian quota.<\/p>\n<p>Mogharabi has played 26 matches for his country, scoring four times.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year old forward also scored 16 goals in 26 appearances for his present club Nejmeh SC.<\/p>\n<p>Mogharabi was a part of the Churchill Brothers team that won the I-League in the 2012-13 season. Churchill have returned to the I-league after a two-year hiatus.<\/p>\n<p>He had scored 10 goals for Churchill, including a hattrick against Delhi-based side ONGC.<\/p>\n<p>Trinidad &amp; Tobago marksman Willis Plaza, Ivan Bukenya of Uganda and Haiti&#8217;s Wedson Anselme are the other three foreigners to join East Bengal so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-10614\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/east-bengal-i-league.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" alt=\"east bengal i league\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/east-bengal-i-league.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/east-bengal-i-league-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Kolkata: In a desperate bid to rope in a foreign player under the Asian quota, city football giants East Bengal have reportedly shown interest in signing Lebanese striker Akram Moghrabi.<\/p>\n<p>East Bengal have discarded their South Korean striker Do Dong-hyun as coach Trevor Morgan did not approve of him. Since then, the red and gold brigade have been on the lookout for a player in this bracket.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to the development told IANS on Wednesday that East Bengal are in talks with Moghrabi in order to fill up their Asian quota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[6929,541,12975,345,466],"class_list":["post-31169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football-football","tag-akram-moghrabi","tag-east-bengal","tag-football-news","tag-i-league","tag-indian-sports-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>East Bengal may recruit Moghrabi in Asian quota - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31169\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"East Bengal may recruit Moghrabi in Asian quota - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kolkata: In a desperate bid to rope in a foreign player under the Asian quota, city football giants East Bengal have reportedly shown interest in signing Lebanese striker Akram Moghrabi. 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