{"id":165,"date":"2006-05-19T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blogs\/?p=165"},"modified":"2010-07-30T22:44:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T22:44:01","slug":"finally-an-indian-soccer-star-in-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/sports\/finally-an-indian-soccer-star-in-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally! An Indian soccer star in World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/660\/1836\/1600\/vikash.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/660\/1836\/400\/vikash.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Rubbing shoulder with the likes of Zinedine Zidane,<span style=\"font-size:-1;\">Thierry <\/span>Henry and Patrick <span style=\"font-size:-1;\">Vieira <\/span>may be an absurd dream for the likes of Baichung Bhutia, but 32-year-old versatile midfielder Vikash Dhorasoo is very much part of France coach Raymond Domenech&#8217;s scheme of things for World Cup when &#8216;The Greatest Show on Earth&#8217; kicks-off in Germany on June 9.<\/p>\n<p>Born on October 10, 1973 in Mauritius to Indian parents, Vikash has been in the reckoning for the last six years and the Paris Saint-Germain player is liked by his coach as well &#8211; capped 13 times in Domenech&#8217;s 18 games in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Vikash has won 28 caps for French under-21 and Under-23 Olympic team and played the 1996 Olympic finals in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>He played for Le Havre AC until 1998 before joining Olympique Lyon for a three-year stint there before switching over to Girondins de Bordeaux in and return to Olympique Lyon again.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2003-04 season, Vikash was named The Best Player of Ligue 1 and the following year, he joined AC Milan.<\/p>\n<p>With Domenech parading a star-studded mid-field, comprising Zinedine Zidane, Patrick Vieira, Alou Diarra, Claude Makelele and Florent Malouda, it&#8217;s going to be a tough job to make it to the final squad but Vikash&#8217;s creative spark is likely to clinch the issue in his favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubbing shoulder with the likes of Zinedine Zidane,Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira may be an absurd dream for the likes of Baichung Bhutia, but 32-year-old versatile midfielder Vikash Dhorasoo is very much part of France coach Raymond Domenech&#8217;s scheme of things for World Cup when &#8216;The Greatest Show on Earth&#8217; kicks-off in Germany on June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[520],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sports","tag-football"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3vNl0-2F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}