{"id":39645,"date":"2020-07-07T08:52:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39645"},"modified":"2020-07-07T08:52:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:52:56","slug":"the-golden-era-of-iran-in-laliga-the-huge-impact-of-nekounam-and-masoud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/07\/07\/the-golden-era-of-iran-in-laliga-the-huge-impact-of-nekounam-and-masoud\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The golden era of Iran in Laliga&#8221;: The huge impact of  Nekounam and Masoud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Navarra.com &#8211; PAMPLONA, <strong>The article, which was promoted by LaLiga in Iran,\u00a0has already registered 2.2 million visits to the country&#8217;s main sports media.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After six seasons without Persian footballers in the Osasuna squad, the Rojillo club continues to be very present in Iran.\u00a0Proof of this is the enormous impact of the publication this week of an\u00a0article entitled \u201cThe Golden Age of Iran in LaLiga, starring\u00a0Javad Nekounam and Masoud Shojaei\u201d, narrated the trajectory of both footballers in the Navarrese entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article, which has been promoted by LaLiga in Iran,\u00a0has already registered 2.2 million visits to the country&#8217;s main sports outlet, Varzesh3.\u00a0Of these, 250,000 users accessed the report through a post on Telegram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, the report\u00a0has also been published in two<strong> <\/strong>other\u00a0important\u00a0sports media such\u00a0as Medal1 and Top90 and in the generalists Akhbarejadid, Khabarban, Koshamag, and Khabarfarsi.\u00a0After the great expectation generated, the Osasuna Athletic Club wanted to respond to the Persian fans with a design in which the motto &#8220;Iran, always in the heart of Osasuna&#8221; can be read in Farsi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Javad Nekounam was the first Iranian footballer to arrive in Osasuna\u00a0and he became one of the most important players in a golden stage for the entity from Rojas.\u00a0His goal against Girondis de Bordeaux in the last minute of extra time is still remembered, which served to qualify the Navarrese team for the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup.\u00a0The Persian midfielder played seven seasons as a rojillo, divided into two stages (from 2006\/07 to 2011\/12 and 2014\/15), in which he played 171 games and scored 29 goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two seasons later,\u00a0his compatriot Masoud Shojaei landed in Osasuna\u00a0.\u00a0With his enormous talent, he earned the affection of the red fans.\u00a0In 2009, in a resounding victory at Vicente Calder\u00f3n against Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid (2-4), he scored one of the most beautiful goals in Osasunista history.\u00a0He played five seasons in the Navarrese team (from 2008\/09 to 2013\/14), in which he played 130 games and scored 13 goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014\/15, the third Iranian in his history,\u00a0Karim Ansarifard,\u00a0arrived in Osasuna, whose journey as a Rojillo was less successful than that of his predecessors.\u00a0He played 16 games in which he did not manage to open his scoring account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navarra.com &#8211; 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