{"id":18914,"date":"2013-01-08T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T13:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rt.com\/sport\/football\/izmailov-sporting-porto-football-567\/"},"modified":"2013-01-08T14:01:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T13:01:41","slug":"izmailov-swaps-sporting-for-porto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/izmailov-swaps-sporting-for-porto\/","title":{"rendered":"Izmailov swaps Sporting for Porto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/sport\/football\/izmailov-sporting-porto-football-567\/izmailov-marat.n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" alt=\"Marat Izmailov in the colors of Sporting (RIA Novosti\/Chekachkov Igor)\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"VideoDescription\" class=\"grey mv10\">Marat Izmailov in the colors of Sporting (RIA Novosti\/Chekachkov Igor)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Russian midfielder Marat Izmailov will continue the Portuguese stage of his career, moving from Sporting to their biggest rivals, FC Porto.<\/p>\n<p>\u00adA Bola newspaper reports that Izmailov has signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with the reigning Portuguese champions, Porto.<\/p>\n<p>No further details have been revealed, but it\u2019s known that Sporting acquired Porto\u2019s midfielder Miguel Lopes as part of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Izmailov moved to Sporting from Lokomotiv Moscow back in 2007, scoring 13 goals in 18 appearances for the club since then.<\/p>\n<p>But the Lisbon side had to part with one of their key players as they couldn\u2019t pay the Russian his high salary due to budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Izmailov is known for great dribbling skills and ability to score from long range, but exposure to injuries has prevented him from using his talent to the full.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old was in Russia\u2019s squad for its failed Euro 2012 campaign, coming into the game as a sub on two occasions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/sport\/football\/izmailov-sporting-porto-football-567\/team-player-izmailov-group.jpg\" alt=\"Russian team player Marat Izmailov in a group stage European Football Championship match between teams of Poland and Russia. (RIA Novosti\/Vladimir Pesnya)\"\/><br \/><small>Russian team player Marat Izmailov in a group stage European Football Championship match between teams of Poland and Russia. (RIA Novosti\/Vladimir Pesnya)<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/sport\/football\/izmailov-sporting-porto-football-567\/izmailov-marat.n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" alt=\"Marat Izmailov in the colors of Sporting (RIA Novosti\/Chekachkov Igor)\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Marat Izmailov in the colors of Sporting (RIA Novosti\/Chekachkov Igor)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Russian midfielder Marat Izmailov will continue the Portuguese stage of his career, moving from Sporting to their biggest rivals, FC Porto.<\/p>\n<p>&shy;A Bola newspaper reports that Izmailov has signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with the reigning Portuguese champions, Porto.<\/p>\n<p>No further details have been revealed, but it&rsquo;s known that Sporting acquired Porto&rsquo;s midfielder Miguel Lopes as part of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Izmailov moved to Sporting from Lokomotiv Moscow back in 2007, scoring 13 goals in 18 appearances for the club since then.<\/p>\n<p>But the Lisbon side had to part with one of their key players as they couldn&rsquo;t pay the Russian his high salary due to budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Izmailov is known for great dribbling skills and ability to score from long range, but exposure to injuries has prevented him from using his talent to the full.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old was in Russia&rsquo;s squad for its failed Euro 2012 campaign, coming into the game as a sub on two occasions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/sport\/football\/izmailov-sporting-porto-football-567\/team-player-izmailov-group.jpg\" alt=\"Russian team player Marat Izmailov in a group stage European Football Championship match between teams of Poland and Russia. (RIA Novosti\/Vladimir Pesnya)\"\/><br \/><small>Russian team player Marat Izmailov in a group stage European Football Championship match between teams of Poland and Russia. (RIA Novosti\/Vladimir Pesnya)<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}