{"id":26294,"date":"2016-10-17T14:40:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26294"},"modified":"2016-10-17T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T21:40:42","slug":"sepahan-captain-moharram-navidkia-hangs-up-his-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/10\/17\/sepahan-captain-moharram-navidkia-hangs-up-his-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan captain Moharram Navidkia hangs up his boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ISFAHAN, <strong>Former Iran national team midfielder Moharram Navidkia bade farewell to his beloved football club Sepahan at the age of 33 on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He began his career at Sepahan football club in 1998 and joined VfL Bochum in 2004 even though he was injured at the time of the signing.<\/p>\n<p>Navidkia was named as the Most Valuable Player of Iran Professional League (IPL) at the 2003\u201304 season.<\/p>\n<p>He was considered one of the best Iranian players due to his potential talent and impressive performances.  <\/p>\n<p>After the World Cup in Germany, Navidkia signed a contract with Sepahan once again.<\/p>\n<p>Navidkia made 25 appearances for Iran national football team and scored one goal against North Korea in the 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification in Pyongyang.  <\/p>\n<p>He made his debut for Team Melli against Jordan in August 2002. His biggest achievement was winning the gold medal of the 2002 Asian Games with Iran U-23 in Busan. Navidkia was a member of Iran football team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup as well.<\/p>\n<p>He bid his farewell to national team in December 2009.<\/p>\n<p> In May 2011, he was called up to Iran national team by Carlos Queiroz, but he rejected the offer due to his &#8220;several injuries and surgeries&#8221; which makes him unable to play for both national team and club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ISFAHAN, Former Iran national team midfielder Moharram Navidkia bade farewell to his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":2007,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26294","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=26294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}