{"id":23362,"date":"2015-11-21T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23362"},"modified":"2015-11-21T14:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T22:16:05","slug":"jahanbakhsh-i-am-the-david-beckham-of-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/11\/21\/jahanbakhsh-i-am-the-david-beckham-of-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Jahanbakhsh: I am the &#8220;David Beckham&#8221; of Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; Alkmaar,\u00a0<strong>AZ Alkmaar midfielder Alireza Jahanbakhsh says that he is not Iran\u2019s David Beckham but is going to become the best Iranian football player. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He currently is one the most famous Iranian players who plays in Europe and that\u2019s why he is quite popular among Iranian fans. \u2028\u2028\u201cI am the David Beckham of Iran? No. I want to be the best football player of my country and eventually be part of the history of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>We had no Iranian player in recent years that made a good move to a club in Europe. That&#8217;s what I did. Especially AZ has built a reputation by performance in the Europa League in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranians are so proud that I am playing for this club,\u201d Jahanbakhsh told AZ official website. \u2028\u2028\u201cPlaying right or left doesn\u2019t matter for me. In the national team I mostly play on the left side while I was a right winger at NEC. In the national team we have Ashkan Dejagah who is a fantastic player and has played in English Premier League and Bundesliga.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m right, but can also shoot with the left,\u201d he said. \u2028\u2028\u201cI almost played in England when the Brighton &amp; Hove Albion came up. I went there to see the city, club, stadium and their training facilities. It all looked good, but I had doubts.<\/p>\n<p>I was not one hundred percent sure that this was the step I wanted to make. When AZ contacted me I was immediately convinced because this is a big club in Netherlands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; Alkmaar,\u00a0AZ Alkmaar midfielder Alireza Jahanbakhsh says that he is not Iran\u2019s David&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":2407,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23362","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=23362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}