{"id":12905,"date":"2012-05-03T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/03\/could-bruno-cesar-play-for-iran\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:11:50","slug":"could-bruno-cesar-play-for-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/03\/could-bruno-cesar-play-for-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Bruno Cesar play for Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/previous.presstv.ir\/photo\/20120317\/gholami20120317144535040.jpg\" height=\"230\" width=\"353\" \/>PFDC &#8211; ESFAHAN\/TEHRAN, <strong>Brazilian striker Bruno Cesar offered his willingness to play for the Iranian national team after a streak of impressive preformances for recent IPL winner Sepahan.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The 26 year old netted seven goals for Sepahan in the Iranian Professional League as well as the Asian Champions league so far out of the eight matches he&#8217;s played for the Isfahan based team.<\/p>\n<p>Before signing at Sepahan in 2011, the Brazilian has played for Armenian giants Banants Yerevan and Incheon United in 2010. <\/p>\n<p>Other foreign players in the IPL have also expressed their willingness to start for Iran, such as former Esteghlal and fellow Brazilian mid-fielder Fabio Januario. One of the winners of the &#8216;Best Foreign player&#8217; award in 2008\/2009, Ivan Petrovic showed his interest in Iran three years ago in 2009 when Ali Daei was Team Melli&#8217;s coach.<\/p>\n<p>Cesar made the statement on Iran&#8217;s Navad show, stating &#8216;if he gets the oppurtunity, he will definately consider playing fo Iran&#8217;. The forward also added Sepahan has been a very &#8216;professional club&#8217; making living in Iran less of a hassle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; ESFAHAN\/TEHRAN, Brazilian striker Bruno Cesar offered his willingness to play for the Iranian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":5143,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}