{"id":2475,"date":"2014-03-07T16:26:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2014-03-07T19:20:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T19:20:16","slug":"premier-tp-scorer-eyes-a-future-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/premier-tp-scorer-eyes-a-future-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Top Scorer Eyes A Future In Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\"><strong>Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has been quoted by the Gazzetta dello Sport as saying he cannot wait to play Champions League football at Anfield, but is not ruling out a future in Italy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Reds are currently second in the Premier League, four points behind league leaders Chelsea, and they have a six-point buffer to Tottenham in fifth place.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool have not featured in Europe&#8217;s premier competition since the 2009\/10 season when they were knocked out in the group stages.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez, who is contracted with the Merseyside club until 2018, admits he is settled at Liverpool but would not rule out playing in Italy one day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A future in Italy? Never say never,&#8221; Suarez told the\u00a0<i>Gazzetta dello Sport<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a South American player who wants to get into history, it is advisable to have an experience in Serie A.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Italian football is a top level and I follow it assiduously. Two years ago I received an offer from Serie A, I don&#8217;t want to name the team, it was a difficult time for me, but after thinking about it I decided to stay in Liverpool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Uruguayan striker has contributed 24 goals for Liverpool in 27 appearances this term but revealed he is eager to sample an Anfield Champions League experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And now things are going perfectly for me,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;We are fighting for the title but above all we are very close to qualifying for the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot wait to finally play the big European matches at Anfield. I could not do it in these three seasons and when my team-mates tell me about the atmosphere of those nights it gives me goose bumps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year we can achieve it, I feel we&#8217;ll do it. And I don&#8217;t lose the club since I have recently extended my contract.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>sky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has been quoted by the Gazzetta dello Sport as saying he cannot wait to play Champions League football at Anfield, but is not ruling out a future in Italy. The Reds are currently second in the Premier League, four points behind league leaders Chelsea, and they have a six-point buffer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}