{"id":32385,"date":"2018-06-17T09:06:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T16:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32385"},"modified":"2018-06-17T09:06:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T16:06:48","slug":"azmoun-insists-hes-not-scared-of-cristiano-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/17\/azmoun-insists-hes-not-scared-of-cristiano-ronaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Azmoun insists he&#8217;s not scared of Cristiano Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG, <strong>Sardar Azmoun, known as \u2018Iranian Messi\u2019, says he is not scared of Portugal striker Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn in Group B of the World Cup in Russia along with Portugal, Morocco and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will play Morocco at the St Petersburg Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m seriously not scared. If there\u2019s only one forward, if I\u2019m there or if I\u2019m not there, right? I for one do not fear them. I am seriously saying this,\u201d Azmoun told Mirror.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old has scored 23 goals in 32 games for Iran to generate Premier League interest.<\/p>\n<p>Azmoun will be backed up by an Iranian attack with solid scoring form going into the competition.<\/p>\n<p>AZ Alkmaar forward Alireza Jahanbakhsh scored 21 times in 35 games over the past season for club and country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG, Sardar Azmoun, known as \u2018Iranian Messi\u2019, says he is not scared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32385","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","category-world-cup"],"views":1646,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32385","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=32385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32387,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32385\/revisions\/32387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}