{"id":13369,"date":"2013-01-06T18:26:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T02:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/01\/06\/daei-messi-deserves-ballon-dor\/"},"modified":"2013-01-06T18:26:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T02:26:39","slug":"daei-messi-deserves-ballon-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/01\/06\/daei-messi-deserves-ballon-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Daei: Messi deserves Ballon d&#8217;Or"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"daei-laughing4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/daei-laughing4.jpg\" height=\"209\" width=\"300\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Former Iran coach Ali Daei said on Sunday that Barcelona striker Lionel Messi deserves to win his fourth successive Ballon d\u2019Or awards.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The 25-year-old will vie with his teammate Andres Iniesta and iconic Real Madrid rival Cristiano Ronaldo for the prize.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Messi finished 2012 with an astonishing 91 goals in all competitions and broke Gerd Mueller\u2019s 40-year record for the most goals in a calendar year.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI will represent the Iranians in the ceremony. As I\u2019ve already said, Lionel Messi will win the prize,\u201d Daei said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cPep Guardiola has a little chance to win the award since he has been without a team in the season,\u201d Rah Ahan current coach added. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Daei, who will fly for Zurich, Switzerland early Monday, will return to Iran on Tuesday. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Daei is world&#8217;s all-time leading goalscorer in international matches. He scored 109 goals in 149 games for Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; ZURICH, Former Iran coach Ali Daei said on Sunday that Barcelona striker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":3424,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}