{"id":13175,"date":"2012-10-02T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/02\/mahdavikia-chosen-for-hamburg-team-of-the-century\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T18:24:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:24:02","slug":"mahdavikia-chosen-for-hamburg-team-of-the-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/10\/02\/mahdavikia-chosen-for-hamburg-team-of-the-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahdavikia chosen for Hamburg team of the century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Mahdavikia077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mahdavikia077.jpg\" height=\"232\" width=\"350\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; HAMBURG, <strong>Mehdi Mahdavikia was selected as the Hamburger SV Team of the Century on Saturday.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The 35-year-old attended the Hamburger SV 125th anniversary gala at O2 World in Hamburg, Germany.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Persepolis captain joined Hamburger SV 1999 and parted company with them in 2007. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The Carpet (his nickname in Hamburger) played 208 times for the German team and scored 26 goals. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cIt\u2019s a great honor for me to stand alongside the big names such as Uli Stein, Thomas Doll, Rafael van der Vaart, Felix Magath and Uwe Seeler. When I walked on stage I felt the best moment in my career. The fans applauded me even more than my playing time. It\u2019s a great honor to be among the team of the century,\u201d Persepolis captain said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Another Iranian player Vahid Hashemian also attended the ceremony. &nbsp;The 36-year-old striker joined Hamburger SV in 1999 from Pas of Iran and left the team two years later for VFL Bochum. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Last season, the two former Iran football team players became teammate once again in Persepolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; HAMBURG, Mehdi Mahdavikia was selected as the Hamburger SV Team of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":4620,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}