{"id":25947,"date":"2016-08-27T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25947"},"modified":"2016-08-28T09:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T16:31:31","slug":"playing-against-bayern-and-atletico-could-be-a-launching-pad-says-ezatollahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/08\/27\/playing-against-bayern-and-atletico-could-be-a-launching-pad-says-ezatollahi\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing against Bayern and Atletico could be a launching pad, says Ezatollahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Rostov Iranian midfielder Saeid Ezatollahi, who has spent a year in Atletico Madrid C, is quite excited after the Russian side was drawn in Group D of the UEFA Champions League alongside his former team Atletico Madrid, giant Bayern Munich and Dutch champion PSV Eindhoven.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I moved here in Rostov from Atletico Madrid, a lot of people said that it was a mistake but in fact I worked hard and now we\u2019re in the UEFA Champions League group stage,\u201d Ezatolahi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so happy that we\u2019ve been drawn alongside the biggest teams in Europe. Bayern Munich has been in the semifinals in the recent years while Atletico is a big club and has reached the final twice in the last two years. We will play against players whom we wished to take selfie with before,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXabi Alonso is my favorite player and I could play against him at Allianz Arena. These games against Bayern, Atletico and PSV would teach us important lessons while could be considered as a launching pad for any of us at Rostov. We will make every effort to have the best performance against them maybe this could change our future,\u201d Iranian international added.<\/p>\n<p>Rostov, who has not qualified for the Champions League group stage before, will take on Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena on September 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Rostov Iranian midfielder Saeid Ezatollahi, who has spent a year in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25947","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":2644,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25947","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=25947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}