{"id":38912,"date":"2020-03-15T09:46:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38912"},"modified":"2020-03-15T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T16:46:10","slug":"iranian-people-are-very-kind-to-me-cheick-diabate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/03\/15\/iranian-people-are-very-kind-to-me-cheick-diabate\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian people are very kind to me: Cheick Diabate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team Malian forward Cheick Diabate says that the Iranian people have been very kind to him.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diabate joined the Iranian giants in July 2019 and scored eight goals in 13 matches for the Blues. He scored a hat-trick in a 4-2 away win over Tractor in Iran league and also scored three goals against Al Rayyan of Qatar and Kuwait SC of Kuwait, helping Esteghlal to book a place at the 2020 AFC Champions League group stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll the people have respected me and I\u2019m not feeling that I am black since I came to Iran. The African people should respect the Iranians because they are good people and have always been kind to me,\u201d Diabate said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diabate has played in leagues of Italy, France, Turkey, and the UAE but he believes that there is a big difference between Iranian fans and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, I am very excited to see the Iranian fans\u2019 excitement. They have always been supportive and encouraged me,\u201d the 31-year-old striker stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis striker Ali Alipour mocked Diabate\u2019s goal celebration pose after scoring in Tehran derby against Esteghlal but Diabate says that it\u2019s normal in football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFirst, I want to say hello to Ali. I think he didn\u2019t do that out of badness. When you score, you want to show your satisfaction and I think Alipour was thinking of me in that moment,\u201d he smiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diabate has played 39 matches for Mali national football team and scored 15 goals. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team Malian forward Cheick Diabate says that the Iranian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":647,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38912","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=38912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38914,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38912\/revisions\/38914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}