{"id":28619,"date":"2017-07-17T10:37:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T17:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28619"},"modified":"2017-07-17T10:37:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T17:37:26","slug":"esteghlal-tehran-oldest-club-in-iran-fifth-oldest-in-asia-afc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/07\/17\/esteghlal-tehran-oldest-club-in-iran-fifth-oldest-in-asia-afc\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal Tehran: Oldest club in Iran, Fifth oldest in Asia [AFC]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Esteghlal of Tehran is the oldest club in Iran but sits fifth in the continent, Asian Football Confederation (AFC) reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tehran giant Esteghlal was formed in 1945 making it the oldest in the Iranian Professional League at 71 years old.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Mohun Bagan was established in 1889 as Mohun Bagan Sporting Club, 128 years ago. And, indeed, it is generally considered to be Asia&#8217;s oldest.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia\u2019s oldest club, PSM Makassar, was founded in 1915 as Makassar Voetbal Bond, when the country was known as the Dutch East Indies.<\/p>\n<p>Since the 1940s, the name was changed to PSM Makassar and the club remains active today in the Indonesian top flight, winning the league in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>In Saudi Arabia, Al Ittihad is the oldest club. The two-time AFC Champions League winner celebrated its 90th birthday in January having been founded in 1927.<\/p>\n<p>And in Japan, Toyo Kogyo Soccer Club was formed in 1938 and is fourth in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Esteghlal of Tehran is the oldest club in Iran but sits&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,91,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":8004,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28619","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=28619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}