{"id":27799,"date":"2017-04-19T14:33:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T21:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27799"},"modified":"2017-04-19T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T21:33:27","slug":"ex-esteghlal-striker-arash-borhani-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/04\/19\/ex-esteghlal-striker-arash-borhani-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Esteghlal striker Arash Borhani announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Esteghlal striker Arash Borhani has announced his retirement from football after 15 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old forward, who currently plays for Paykan, started his playing career in 2002 with Pas and won Iran Professional League title in his four-year term in the Tehran based team.<\/p>\n<p>Borhani joined Iranian popular team Esteghlal in 2007 and scored 114 goals for the Blues in 283 matches, making him the all-time top goal scorers of Esteghlal and also the second all-time top goal scorers in Iran&#8217;s Premier Football League.<\/p>\n<p>Borhani penned an emotional open letter to Esteghlal fans as he prepares to hang up his but at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot find words to describe my gratitude towards Esteghlal fans. I would like to thank all of them and say that I cannot hide my sadness over the retirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope I will be remembered as a player who has always fought for his club.  I want also to thank those persons who played the role in my career progression in football,\u201d Borhani said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Esteghlal striker Arash Borhani has announced his retirement from football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":4624,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27799","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=27799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}