{"id":22635,"date":"2015-09-12T17:24:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T00:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22635"},"modified":"2015-09-12T17:24:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T00:24:48","slug":"azmoun-i-rejected-russian-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/09\/12\/azmoun-i-rejected-russian-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Azmoun: I rejected Russian citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ROSTOV, <strong>Iranian international striker Sardar Azmoun revealed that he has rejected the chance to play for Russian national football team after missing the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Azmoun, who was left out of Iran\u2019s squad for 2014 World Cup by Carlos Queiroz, proved his quality at the 2015 AFC Asian Cup in Australia. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter last summer\u2019s World Cup a guy who was so close to Fabio Capello came to me and asked if I would like to play for Russia national team. Despite their superb financial bid I rejected it immediately because I\u2019m an Iranian player who wants to play for Iran and I didn\u2019t even think about that offer,\u201d Azmoun told Tasnim News Agency. <\/p>\n<p>Sardar also talked about his move from Rubin Kazan to Rostov and his future in European football. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had an offer from German Bundesliga this summer and I could have left Russia but Kurban Berdyev asked me to help him in Rostov so I joined him. I have a lot of plans for my future and I will definitely move to a well-known club in Europe next year,\u201d the 20-year old striker added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ROSTOV, Iranian international striker Sardar Azmoun revealed that he has rejected the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":22636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4073,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22635","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}