{"id":27477,"date":"2017-03-12T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27477"},"modified":"2017-03-12T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T08:01:00","slug":"irans-mokhtari-wins-mvp-and-top-scorer-accolades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/12\/irans-mokhtari-wins-mvp-and-top-scorer-accolades\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Mokhtari wins MVP and Top Scorer accolades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA TERENGGANU, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran talisman Mohammadali Mokhtari has been crowned the Most Valuable Player and Top Scorer following the conclusion of the AFC Beach Soccer Championship Malaysia 2017 in Kuala Terengganu on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-six-year-old Mokhtari scored a total of 12 goals, including two in the final against the United Arab Emirates, a double in Iran&#8217;s semi-final defeat of Japan, a whopping four against hosts Malaysia in their campaign opener, three against China and one in his side&#8217;s win over Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very exciting moment both for me and my team to win all these awards,\u201d said the Iran number nine. \u201cThese were achieved not through my efforts alone but through the hard work of the whole squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the most important thing was to win the championship and going forward to prepare for the World Cup, which definitely will be a different tournament from the Asian championship. I&#8217;ll give my best and do even better in the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran, who defeated the UAE 7-2 in the final, also grabbed the Fair Play award at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FULL LIST OF WINNERS<\/strong><br \/>\nChampions: Islamic Republic of Iran<br \/>\nRunners-up: United Arab Emirates<br \/>\nThird-place: Japan<br \/>\nMVP: Mohammadali Mokhtari (Islamic Republic of Iran &#8211; 12 goals)<br \/>\nTop Scorer: Mohammadali Mokhtari<br \/>\nFair Play: Islamic Republic of Iran<\/p>\n<p>Photo: AFC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA TERENGGANU, Islamic Republic of Iran talisman Mohammadali Mokhtari has been crowned the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,141,84,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2557,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27477","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=27477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}