{"id":10936,"date":"2010-01-31T09:34:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T17:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/01\/31\/ali-karimi-is-11-on-most-popular-player-list\/"},"modified":"2010-01-31T09:34:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T17:34:45","slug":"ali-karimi-is-11-on-most-popular-player-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/01\/31\/ali-karimi-is-11-on-most-popular-player-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Karimi is 11 on most popular player list"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">PTV &#8211; Iran&#8217;s Steel Azin FC midfielder, Ali Karimi, has been selected as the world&#8217;s 11th<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Karimi034.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"259\" alt=\"Karimi034\" style=\"float: right;\" \/>most popular football player in 2009.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Iranian star was selected by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) with 17.905 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Steel Azin player Mehdi Mahdavikia, who only recently left Eintracht Frankfurt to return to Iran, placed 27th with 6.429 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Honduran football striker, Carlos Alberto Pavon, who currently plays for Real CD Espana is at the top of the world&#8217;s list with 195.182 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The IFFHS world&#8217;s top 20 most popular football players for 2009\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1. Carlos Alberto Pavon\u00a0<br \/>2. Arda Turan\u00a0<br \/>3. Mohamed Aboutreika\u00a0<br \/>4. Micha? Zew?akow\u00a0<br \/>5. Juan Manuel Vargas\u00a0<br \/>6. Alexandre Raphael Meschini \u00bbAlex\u00ab\u00a0<br \/>7. Yasser Al-Qahtani\u00a0<br \/>8. Li Jinyu\u00a0<br \/>9. Andrey Arshavin\u00a0<br \/>10. Jose Francisco Cevallos\u00a0<br \/>11. Ali Karimi\u00a0<br \/>12. Antonio Pacheco\u00a0<br \/>13. Alexis Alejandro Sanchez\u00a0<br \/>14. Bryan Ruiz\u00a0<br \/>15. Juan Sebastian Veron\u00a0<br \/>16. Igor Akinfeev\u00a0<br \/>17. Artem V. Milevskiy\u00a0<br \/>18. Dario Srna\u00a0<br \/>19. Dimitar Berbatov\u00a0<br \/>20. Mohammed Noor Adam Hawsawi<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"http:\/\/haftegi.7rooz.com\/aliz\/gallery\/albums\/week43\/AliKarimiCL.jpg\" \/> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; Iran&#8217;s Steel Azin FC midfielder, Ali Karimi, has been selected as the world&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":14336,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}