{"id":14698,"date":"2013-05-26T07:49:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14698"},"modified":"2013-05-26T07:49:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:49:05","slug":"bayern-deserved-to-win-champions-league-mahdavikia-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/05\/26\/bayern-deserved-to-win-champions-league-mahdavikia-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern deserved to win Champions League, Mahdavikia says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; LONDON, <strong>Ex-Iran winger Mehdi Mahdavikia said on Sunday that the better team won the Champions League title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bayern Munich won the Champions League final on Saturday, defeating Borussia Dortmund by a 2-1 score.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a beautiful match. I think Bayern was the better team in the second half and won the match,\u201d said former Hamburger SV and Eintracht Frankfurt midfielder, who attended the match at London&#8217;s Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia also expressed his praises to the Borussia Dortmund\u2019s fans.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old player bade farewell in early May after Persepolis lost to Sepahan in penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia made 111 appearances for Iran football team and scored 13 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; LONDON, Ex-Iran winger Mehdi Mahdavikia said on Sunday that the better team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":14649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c20-other-news"],"views":2083,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}