{"id":30680,"date":"2018-02-05T11:10:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T19:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30680"},"modified":"2018-02-05T11:10:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T19:10:44","slug":"world-cup-scout-daniel-arzani-socceroos-and-iran-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/02\/05\/world-cup-scout-daniel-arzani-socceroos-and-iran-eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Scout: Daniel Arzani, Socceroos and Iran eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perth Now &#8211; MELBOURNE, <strong>DANIEL Arzani is now well and truly in the frame to go to the World Cup, but it might not be with Australia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The young Melbourne City has been on fire in the A-League, with former Socceroo Mark Bosnich calling for the Socceroos to \u201carrange a game against anyone and just cap him\u201d in order to lock in the starlet.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because Asian football rival Iran are sniffing about in a bid to tempt Arzani to switch allegiances. Arzani, born in Iran, has already attracted the interest of Team Melli coach Carlos Queiroz, who could hand the youngster a call up according to the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n<p>New coach Bert van Marwijk wasn\u2019t at Suncorp Stadium to watch Arzani star against Brisbane Roar, but FFA\u2019s head of national teams Luke Casserly is set to make an official approach to the 19-year-old to convince him to commit to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Casserly told AAP it would be \u201cdisappointing\u201d if Arzani defected having represented Australia at youth level.<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite Bosnich\u2019s calls to cap the youngster, it wouldn\u2019t be enough to keep him away from the grasp of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>According to FIFA rules, Arzani \u2013 who has Iranian heritage through his parents \u2013 can opt to play for Iran despite playing youth internationals for Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The only way Iran would be unable to field Arzani would be if the attacker plays a competitive, senior international \u2013 the next of which is at the World Cup!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kid is a super talent,\u201d said 60-cap former Socceroo John Kosmina on Fox Sports News 500.<\/p>\n<p>\u201che\u2019s exciting \u2013 he loves to dribble, loves to take players on, takes risks and he\u2019s cocky which is great. It\u2019s that little bit of likable arrogance and he\u2019s getting results. He\u2019s clever, doesn\u2019t mind the odd nutmeg but he gets into good areas and his delivery and execution is generally spot on.<\/p>\n<p>Kosmina added: \u201cThere\u2019s already talk of him being the next $1 million player to transfer overseas but I guess the big issue is his Iranian heritage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to get him capped for Australia because he could be a great asset for us. In terms of his skill and what he has to offer, we have to focus on that and get him [locked] in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perth Now &#8211; MELBOURNE, DANIEL Arzani is now well and truly in the frame to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,140,89,91,93,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-u19","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":3241,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680","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=30680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30682,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680\/revisions\/30682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}