{"id":26751,"date":"2016-12-21T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T23:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26751"},"modified":"2016-12-21T15:44:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T23:44:44","slug":"fox-sports-top-5-asian-players-in-europe-alireza-jahanbakhsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/12\/21\/fox-sports-top-5-asian-players-in-europe-alireza-jahanbakhsh\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Sports: Top 5 Asian players in Europe [Alireza Jahanbakhsh]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports &#8211; LOS ANGELES, <strong>Asian players are gradually becoming more of a force in the leagues of Europe. We look at some of the top Asian players in Europe who have made a name for themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alireza Jahanbakhsh (Iran)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alireza Jahanbakhsh plays for AZ Alkmaar in the Netherlands. The Iranian forward has been in good form lately, playing regularly for the club and is noted for his passing accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Just last month he scored and provided an assist in a man-of-the-match effort against Heracles, who are fifth in the Eredivisie.<\/p>\n<p>He was voted the second-best young talent of the 2013\u20132014 Eredivisie season.<\/p>\n<p>Jahanbakhsh played for Iran at the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, while he made his UEFA Europa League debut in a 2\u20131 group stage win over Athletic Bilbao last year.<\/p>\n<p>Jahanbakhsh was called into Iran\u2019s Olympic qualifiers in March last year and was named team captain.<\/p>\n<p>His first national team goal came in his second game in a 3\u20130 win against Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Other players mentioned: Son Heung-min (Korean Republic), Ali Adnan (Iraq), Park Joo-ho (Korean Republic), and Stefano Lilipaly (Indonesia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports &#8211; LOS ANGELES, Asian players are gradually becoming more of a force in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":5051,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751","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=26751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}