{"id":18261,"date":"2014-05-20T10:51:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T17:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18261"},"modified":"2014-05-20T10:51:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T17:51:48","slug":"irans-sardar-azmoun-dislikes-messi-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/05\/20\/irans-sardar-azmoun-dislikes-messi-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Sardar Azmoun dislikes Messi comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian prodigy striker Sardar Azmoun said that he cannot be compared to Lionel Messi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>English media named Rubin Kazan striker the &#8216;Iranian Lionel Messi&#8217; but Azmoun said that it\u2019s not a fair comparison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe comparison with Messi is not correct since he is the best player of the world,&#8221; Azmoun told the Tasnim News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>As regards Iran&#8217;s World Cup match against Argentnia, Azmoun said, &#8220;Playing for Iran in the World Cup is a great honor. I hope that I have the opportunity to be in lineup and I will be happy if I will play against Argentina,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA striker needs score and I will try to score if I get the opportunity to play, however I believe that everything is in the hands of God. I cannot promise for scoring but I will do my best at the World Cup,\u201d the 19-year-old player added.<\/p>\n<p>He voiced optimism about Iranian national football team&#8217;s good performance in Brazil, and said, \u201cIran could qualify for the next round. Anything is possible in football. Each team tries more, will advance to the next round.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian prodigy striker Sardar Azmoun said that he cannot be compared to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":16097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6889,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261","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=18261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}