{"id":8897,"date":"2017-11-19T19:40:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T10:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=8897"},"modified":"2017-11-19T19:40:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T10:40:31","slug":"wu-lei-makes-shortlist-asian-player-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/19\/wu-lei-makes-shortlist-asian-player-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu Lei makes shortlist for Asian Player of the Year award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai SIPG midfielder Wu Lei has been nominated for this year&#8217;s Asian Player of the Year award, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Chinese footballer scored a staggering 20 goals in 28 matches to help Shanghai SIPG finish second in the Chinese Super League.<\/p>\n<p>He also scored five goals in 15 games in SIPG&#8217;s AFC Champions League campaign this year, helping them to reach the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Wu Lei featured on the three-man shortlist for the award, alongside Al-Ain midfielder\u00a0Omar Abdulrahman and Al-Hilal striker\u00a0Omar Kharbin.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the award will be announced at a ceremony held in Bangkok, Thailand on November 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai SIPG midfielder Wu Lei has been nominated for this year&#8217;s Asian Player of the Year award, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced on Saturday. The 25-year-old Chinese footballer scored a staggering 20 goals in 28 matches to help Shanghai SIPG finish second in the Chinese Super League. He also scored five goals in 15 games in SIPG&#8217;s AFC Champions League campaign this year, helping them to reach the semi-finals. Wu Lei featured on the three-man shortlist for the award, alongside Al-Ain midfielder\u00a0Omar Abdulrahman and Al-Hilal striker\u00a0Omar Kharbin. The winner of the award will be announced at a ceremony held in Bangkok, Thailand on November 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":5740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,30],"tags":[298,1078,237,1077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897"}],"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=8897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}