Melbourne City rising star Daniel Arzani has revealed he would choose Iran if being given\u00a0the chance to play at this year’s FIFA World Cup in Russia.<\/p>\n
The A-League\u00a0Young Footballer of the Year award winner said that he would represent Iran<\/a> in Russia this summer if he is left out of the Socceroos’ preliminary 35-man World Cup squad, which will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the Socceroos definitely for me,\u201d Arzani said, as quoted by SBS The World Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the thing is there is a World Cup coming up and I wouldn\u2019t be one to pass up the chance to play in a World Cup, it\u2019s an amazing experience.”<\/p>\n \u201cObviously from being very young, watching the Socceroos play, I\u2019ve always dreamt of playing for them and putting on the green and gold for the first team.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTo think that one day hopefully soon I could be putting on that jersey is just something special.\u201d \u201cJust growing up watching players like Harry Kewell and Tim Cahill that I now know personally and play, it\u2019s just crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Melbourne City rising star Daniel Arzani has revealed he would choose Iran if being given\u00a0the chance to play at this year’s FIFA World Cup in Russia. The A-League\u00a0Young Footballer of the Year award winner said that he would represent Iran in Russia this summer if he is left out of the Socceroos’ preliminary 35-man World Cup squad, which will be announced in the coming weeks. \u201cI think the Socceroos definitely for me,\u201d Arzani said, as quoted by SBS The World Game. \u201cBut the thing is there is a World Cup coming up and I wouldn\u2019t be one to pass up the chance to play in a World Cup, it\u2019s an … Continue reading “Daniel Arzani would choose to represent Iran at 2018 World Cup if being given chance”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[637,110,1416,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}