{"id":39112,"date":"2020-04-21T07:40:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39112"},"modified":"2020-04-21T07:40:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:40:02","slug":"all-football-best-xi-outside-top-5-leagues-sardar-azmoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/04\/21\/all-football-best-xi-outside-top-5-leagues-sardar-azmoun\/","title":{"rendered":"All Football &#8211; Best XI outside top 5 leagues: Sardar Azmoun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All Football &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG, <strong>Most of our club football conversations usually revolve around the happenings in the top 5 leagues. These leagues are graced by some of the best footballers in the world who have also won laurels for their respective national sides.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this does not mean that there aren&#8217;t good players outside these top 5 leagues. But these players from the supposedly &#8216;lesser&#8217; leagues often fly under the radar. On that note, let us have a look at players, in various positions, who do not play in Europe&#8217;s top 5 leagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forwards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sardar Azmoun (Zenit St. Petersburg\/Iran)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the left of our front three is Iranian forward Sardar Azmoun. He plays for Zenit St Petersburg in the Russian Premier Liga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azmoun has scored 10 goals, and provided 6 assists this season, which is second only to teammate Artem Dzuyba in terms of most goals and assists in the Russian league in 2019-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 25-year-old is a prolific scorer in international football as well, netting an impressive 31 goals in 46 international games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Football &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG, Most of our club football conversations usually revolve around the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39112","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"],"views":1640,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39112","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=39112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39114,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39112\/revisions\/39114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}