{"id":78251,"date":"2011-03-22T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T09:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=78251"},"modified":"2011-03-22T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T09:48:13","slug":"ajax-armenian-forward-prefers-dutch-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/22\/ajax-armenian-forward-prefers-dutch-national-team.html","title":{"rendered":"Ajax Armenian Forward Prefers Dutch National Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish-born, ethnic Armenian forward Aras Ozbiliz, who plays for Amsterdam&#8217;s Ajax, hopes to play for the Dutch national team. Ozbiliz admitted this himself in an interview with Dutch publication Algemeen Dagblad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I can grow and I&#8217;m given the chance, then I choose Orange [the Dutch team],&#8221; he said, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ajaxinside.nl\/items\/lees\/6465\/\u00d6zbiliz-kiest-Nederlands-elftal-boven-Armeni\u00eb\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Ajax official website<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, head coach of the Armenian national team Vardan Minasyan had invited Ozbiliz to play in Armenia&#8217;s national team and even went to Amsterdam specifically to watch the 21-year-old athlete play. Football Federation of Armenia Vice-Chair Ashot Manukyan even held negotiations with Ozbiliz.<\/p>\n<p>Ozbiliz has asked for time to think about the offer till May of this year. He will announce his decision by then.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish-born, ethnic Armenian forward Aras Ozbiliz, who plays for Amsterdam&#8217;s Ajax, hopes to play for the Dutch national team. <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19631,19630,23738],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}