{"id":24776,"date":"2016-04-04T16:41:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T23:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24776"},"modified":"2016-04-04T16:41:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T23:41:30","slug":"zidane-is-the-best-player-ive-played-against-mehdi-mahdavikia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/04\/04\/zidane-is-the-best-player-ive-played-against-mehdi-mahdavikia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Zidane is the best player I\u2019ve played against&#8221;: Mehdi Mahdavikia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; HAMBURG, <strong>Former Iranian international Mehdi Mahdavikia admitted that current Real Madrid head coach is the best player he has played against in his whole career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was at Hamburg we faced Juventus twice in 2000-01 UEFA Champions League group stage. I will never forget that match which ended up in a 4-4 draw, I scored once, was awarded a penalty and provided an assist. Zidane was at Juventus then and I would like to say that he is the best player I\u2019ve played against. He was unpredictable, in my opinion he was a perfect player,\u201d Mahdavikia said.<\/p>\n<p>Former Hamburg and Eintracht Frankfurt winger also believes that Bundesliga is one of the best leagues in the world<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest advantage of German Bundesliga comparing to the other top leagues in the world is its discipline and that\u2019s the main reason why Die Mannschaft is very successful,\u201d Mahdavikia added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately there is not much attention to the grassroots football in Iran while we have a lot of young talents who are capable of reaching world class level. We have Sardar Azmoun and Alireza Jahanbakhsh who came from Iran youth team and now playing in Europe,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter 1998 World Cup in France I had a couple of offers from Europe. I almost joined Tottenham but there were minor issues which blocked this move,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia is eager to become the Hamburg SV head coach in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Hamburg and its fans and it is a dream to become the head coach of this club one day,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; HAMBURG, Former Iranian international Mehdi Mahdavikia admitted that current Real Madrid head&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,142,91,93,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-uncategorized"],"views":3429,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24776","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=24776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}