{"id":20606,"date":"2015-02-22T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20606"},"modified":"2015-03-25T16:08:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T23:08:50","slug":"persepolis-can-be-different-in-asia-mahdavikia-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/02\/22\/persepolis-can-be-different-in-asia-mahdavikia-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis can be different in Asia, Mahdavikia says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Persepolis and Team Melli player Mehdi Mahdavikia believes that the Reds can get good results despite struggling in the Iran Professional League.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersepolis was not what the fans expected in the current season in the Iran football league but AFC Champions League is a different story and they can get good results there,\u201d Mahdavikia told Persepolis official website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think one of the main reasons for Persepolis&#8217;s poor performance is that players are suffering from mental confidence. If the fans come to the stadium in the first game against Lekhwiya we will see a different Persepolis and the players will play with more enthusiasm,\u201d former Hamburg player added.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis has been drawn alongside Saudi champion Nassr, Qatari Stars League winner Lekhwiya and Uzbek side Bunyodkor in group A of the Asian Champions League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Persepolis and Team Melli player Mehdi Mahdavikia believes that the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":3384,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20606","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}