{"id":40396,"date":"2020-09-17T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T18:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40396"},"modified":"2020-09-17T11:57:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T18:57:35","slug":"afc-international-player-of-the-week-kaveh-rezaei-shortlisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/17\/afc-international-player-of-the-week-kaveh-rezaei-shortlisted\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC International Player of the Week: Kaveh Rezaei shortlisted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iranian forward of Charleroi Kaveh Rezaei has been shortlisted for the AFC International Player of the Week.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may be the world\u2019s largest continent, but Asian football has grown to become bigger than Asia itself, with players leaving their footprint in every corner of the global game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a new weekly poll, the-afc.com celebrates the Asian stars who shine beyond their respective homelands and invite fans from throughout the continent to help the site chooses the AFC International Player of the Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the opening edition of the series, the-afc.com has shortlisted eight players from seven different countries following an action-packed week of football in Europe and beyond, but who deserves to win the maiden award?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly enjoying life in Belgium, Iranian forward Kaveh Rezaei provided his third goal of the new season, calmly finishing off a lung-bursting counter-attacking move to help Charleroi claim a confident 2-0 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 28-year-old has scored in three of his last four matches, with Charleroi winning five in a row to hold a perfect record and top spot in Belgian First Division A mid-way through September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rezaei will vie with Lee Kang-in (Valencia, Korea Republic), Lee Seung-woo (Sint-Truiden, Korea Republic), Sam Kerr (Chelsea, Australia), Hiroki Sakai (Olympique Marseille, Japan), Bassel Jradi (Hajduk Split, Lebanon), Wu Lei (Espanyol, China PR) and Justin Meram (Real Salt Lake, Iraq) in a poll to become the AFC International Player of the Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iranian forward of Charleroi Kaveh Rezaei has been shortlisted for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40396","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":569,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40396","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=40396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40398,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40396\/revisions\/40398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}