{"id":19246,"date":"2014-09-14T06:16:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19246"},"modified":"2014-09-14T06:16:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T13:16:18","slug":"saeid-ezzatollahi-dreams-of-winning-golden-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/09\/14\/saeid-ezzatollahi-dreams-of-winning-golden-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Saeid Ezzatollahi dreams of winning Golden Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MADRID, <strong>Iranian midfielder of Atl\u00e9tico Madrid B Saeid Ezzatollahi said that he dreams of winning the golden ball.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ezzatollahi signed a one-year contract with Spanish side on late August with an option to extend for four-year following the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always used to say to myself I can win the golden ball. Every time I see the FIFA Golden Ball gala I ask myself \u2018can I win the prestigious award one day?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always thought I cannot win the prize since I play in Iran. At the moment, I play in the European team and I live in the country, where Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have won the golden balls,\u201d Ezzatollahi told the Tasnim News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can become a star at Atl\u00e9tico Madrid. I can do what Arda Turan did in the team. Turkey could not be successful in Europe but Turkish player Arda Turan performed well in Atl\u00e9tico Madrid\u2019s arrangement. If God wants I can become a star,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think La Liga is the best league in the world. My goal is to join the big clubs in the future,\u201d Ezzatollahi stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MADRID, Iranian midfielder of Atl\u00e9tico Madrid B Saeid Ezzatollahi said that he dreams&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":19151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":5309,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19246","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=19246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}