{"id":9685,"date":"2009-02-16T17:17:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T17:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/02\/16\/ahmed-promotes-football-in-asian-community\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T17:17:06","slug":"ahmed-promotes-football-in-asian-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/16\/ahmed-promotes-football-in-asian-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed promotes football in Asian community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Pakistan star hopes to see more Asians in football<\/h3>\n<div><strong>PAKISTAN international and new Port Vale loan signing Adnan Ahmed called into a Primary school to promote football in the Asian community.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 24-year-old midfielder spoke to girls at Etruscan Primary School before they were put through their paces with an hour-long coaching session organised by the League Two club.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Ahmed is one of only a handful of players of subcontinent origin to have made the breakthrough into professional football on these shores.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0And he is hoping to use his role model status to encourage more Asian youngsters to play football.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He said: &#8220;I think there are about four Asian players currently playing in the football league so the facts speak for themselves.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Sometimes Asian parents place more emphasis on their children receiving an education than following a sport like football so it can be difficult maintaining the enthusiasm, but hopefully we can start to change that.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;With the size of the Asian community in Britain then there should be more Asian footballers breaking through into first teams. It won&#8217;t happen overnight but hopefully by visiting schools like this we can get more and more people involved in the sport.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Ahmed, who was born in Burnley, joined the Valiants on a month&#8217;s loan from Tranmere Rovers, but has yet to make an appearance.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The midfielder, who has eight international caps and two goals for Pakistan, added: &#8220;I&#8217;ve just been keeping my head down, getting stronger for when I get my chance.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan star hopes to see more Asians in football PAKISTAN international and new Port Vale loan signing Adnan Ahmed called into a Primary school to promote football in the Asian community. &#13; The 24-year-old midfielder spoke to girls at Etruscan Primary School before they were put through their paces with an hour-long coaching session organised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}