{"id":14357,"date":"2013-04-24T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14357"},"modified":"2013-04-24T12:34:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:34:12","slug":"mahdavikia-has-testimonial-with-hamburger-sv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/04\/24\/mahdavikia-has-testimonial-with-hamburger-sv\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahdavikia has testimonial with Hamburger SV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis captain Mehdi Mahdavikia is set to have a testimonial match against Hamburg, according to the Iranian football club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis has negotiated with the German club to arrange a testimonial match in Hamburg or Tehran, capital of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia, who will turn 36 in July, has decided to bring an end to his 18-year career.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia joined Persepolis in 1995 and after three years moved to Bochum.<\/p>\n<p>His stellar career came with Hamburger SV, where the winger played 208 times and scored 26 goals. The nickname of Mahdavikia was the Carpet in the German team.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia was selected as the Hamburger SV Team of the Century in October 2012 and attended the Hamburger SV 125th anniversary gala at O2 World in Hamburg, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia joined Persepolis once again in 2012 and scored three goals in 26 matches for the Iranian giant.<\/p>\n<p>He has also made 111 appearances for Iran football team and scored 13 goals in the team but decided to hang up his boots in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia has played in Eintracht Frankfurt and Iran\u2019s Steel Azin and Damash as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis captain Mehdi Mahdavikia is set to have a testimonial match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":4719,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14357","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=14357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}