{"id":39485,"date":"2020-06-19T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T01:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39485"},"modified":"2020-06-19T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T01:41:19","slug":"shojaei-voted-asias-greatest-player-in-la-liga-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/06\/19\/shojaei-voted-asias-greatest-player-in-la-liga-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Shojaei voted &#8216;Asia\u2019s Greatest player in La Liga&#8217; [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iranian player Masoud Shojaei has been voted as the Asia\u2019s greatest player in Spanish football.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a poll conducted by the-afc.com, 61 percent of participants voted the Iranian midfielder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Javad Nekounam was the first Iranian player to shine in La Liga, Shojaei wasn\u2019t far behind, and the duo created a unique Team Melli influence in northern Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often used as an impact player off the substitute\u2019s bench, Shojaei was a reliable contributor of assists, particularly in his debut season where he created eight goals for his teammates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A serious injury robbed him of the entire 2011-12 campaign, and his time in Spain finished in the Segunda Division with Las Palmas, but his tally of more than 100 appearances in the top tier outlines his quality as a player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian defeated his compatriot Nekounam, Wu Lei (CHN), Takashi Inui (JPN), Paulino Alc\u00e1ntara (PHI) and John Aloisi (AUS) to be named as the Asia\u2019s Greatest Player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Masoud Shojaei In Osasuna\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-x2pL-IZV4k?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, Iranian player Masoud Shojaei has been voted as the Asia\u2019s greatest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":839,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39485","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=39485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39487,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39485\/revisions\/39487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}