{"id":18320,"date":"2014-05-28T08:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T15:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18320"},"modified":"2014-05-28T23:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T06:50:03","slug":"world-cup-triples-last-chance-for-nekounam-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/05\/28\/world-cup-triples-last-chance-for-nekounam-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup triple: last chance For Nekounam In Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>express.co.uk &#8211; LONDON, <strong>Iran&#8217;s long-serving skipper and defensive midfielder, some 14 years in the international saddle, aims to make some history when his side do battle <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-11771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/nekounam-hiss-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"nekounam-hiss\" width=\"172\" height=\"250\" \/>with Argentina, Bosnia and Nigeria in Brazil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Team Melli&#8217;s three previous World Cup appearances (1978, 1998 and 2006), not one of their skippers &#8211; among them heavyweights Ali Parvin and Ali Daei -has managed a goal and the 33-year-old Kuwait Sporting Club player would dearly love to buck the trend.<\/p>\n<p>It shouldn&#8217;t prove beyond him either. Boasting a strike-rate of 36 goals in 137 games for Iran &#8211; including five in the qualifiers for Brazil &#8211; the dynamic Nekounam has a clear liking for the big stage and with today&#8217;s Iran playing with far more dash and freedom than in the past, he should have more than enough opportunities to unleash that forceful right foot of his.<\/p>\n<p>A popular figure at Spanish club Osasuna for six seasons (2006-12) &#8211; earning himself the nickname of &#8216;Caviar&#8217; &#8211; he is an emblematic figure in Iranian football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>express.co.uk &#8211; LONDON, Iran&#8217;s long-serving skipper and defensive midfielder, some 14 years in the international&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5682,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18320","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\/25049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}