{"id":39291,"date":"2020-05-19T17:15:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39291"},"modified":"2020-05-19T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:22:18","slug":"dejagah-voted-as-greatest-asian-player-to-feature-in-the-bundesliga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/05\/19\/dejagah-voted-as-greatest-asian-player-to-feature-in-the-bundesliga\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC: Dejagah voted greatest Asian player to feature in the Bundesliga [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Ashkan Dejagah defeated his countrymen Ali Daei, Mehdi Mahdavikia and Vahid Hashemian to be named as the greatest Bundesliga Player.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a poll conducted by the-afc.com, 37 percent of participants voted the Iranian midfielder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Tehran and raised in Berlin, Dejagah was a regular German youth international in his teens before becoming a star in the Bundesliga, as well as the Iranian national team, in his twenties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A scorer and provider of goals from midfield, Dejagah is one of three Asian players to have helped Felix Magath\u2019s unheralded Wolfsburg outfit from fifth place to a surprise title in 2008-09, and also made a name for himself in the English Premier League with Fulham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cha Bum-kun (Korea Republic),Yasuhiko Okudera (Japan), Makoto Hasebe (Japan), Koo Ja-cheol (Korea Republic), Shinji Kagawa (Japan) and Son Heung-min (Korea Republic) also were vying for the award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Die Top 5 Tore von Ashkan Dejagah im Trikot des VfL Wolfsburg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/05ETAUFbmLA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Ashkan Dejagah defeated his countrymen Ali Daei, Mehdi Mahdavikia and Vahid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,89,142,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-memory-lane","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1290,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291","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=39291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39294,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291\/revisions\/39294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}