{"id":38888,"date":"2020-03-11T19:36:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T02:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38888"},"modified":"2020-03-11T19:36:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T02:36:02","slug":"napoli-eye-iran-international-sardar-azmoun-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/03\/11\/napoli-eye-iran-international-sardar-azmoun-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli eye Iran international Sardar Azmoun [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tehran Times &#8211; NAPLES,<strong> Italian football club Napoli have shown interest in signing Iranian international forward Sardar Azmoun, &#8216;Corriere dello Sport&#8217; reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Napoli are monitoring the situation of out-of-favor Real Madrid striker Luka Jovic but another option for the Italian giants is&nbsp;Zenit&nbsp;striker Azmoun, who has scored eleven goals and five assists so far this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Azmoun, dubbed &#8220;the Iranian Lionel Messi&#8221;, has been repeatedly linked with a move to English Premier League teams in the recent years but the transfer has not yet happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 25-year-old forward has represented Iran at the 2015 and 2019 AFC Asian Cups and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Azmoun had joined Rubin Kazan from Iranian club Stephan in 2013 and spent the 2015-16 season on loan at FC Rostov. He moved to Rostov on a permanent deal at the start of 2016-17 season before Rubin bought him back in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Azmoun joined leaders of the Russian domestic league Zenit on a three-and-a-half-year deal in February 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; NAPLES, Italian football club Napoli have shown interest in signing Iranian international&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1474,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38888","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=38888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38890,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38888\/revisions\/38890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}