{"id":21694,"date":"2015-06-01T11:33:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T18:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21694"},"modified":"2015-06-01T12:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:30:45","slug":"zob-ahan-crowned-hazfi-cup-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/06\/01\/zob-ahan-crowned-hazfi-cup-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Zob Ahan Crowned Hazfi Cup Champions [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Zob Ahan Esfahan were crowned Iran&#8217;s Hazfi Cup champions after defeating Naft Tehran 3-1 in the final on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Naft took the lead through Iranian international winger Vahid Amiri but Zob Ahan equalized through Ghasem Hadadifar before taking the lead thanks to veteran striker Mehdi Rajabzadeh.<\/p>\n<p>Kaveh Rezaei&#8217;s 3-1 then was the nail in the coffin for Alireza Mansourian&#8217;s Naft who, after becoming runners-up in the league behind Sepahan in a dramatic season finale, now also finished second in the Cup and can only comfort themselves with their AFC Champions League quarter-final berth and automatical qualification to the 2016 edition of the continental tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Zob Ahan also took the second trophy to Esfahan and will also join Naft in the 2016 Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The win should be especially sweet for Yahya Golmohammadi, who narrowly and dramatically lost the 2013 Hazfi Cup final when still in charge of Persepolis Tehran.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ugwv55HUiQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ugwv55HUiQ<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, Zob Ahan Esfahan were crowned Iran&#8217;s Hazfi Cup champions after defeating Naft&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":21695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-hazfi-cup"],"views":1905,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694","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=21694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}