{"id":32820,"date":"2018-07-19T10:05:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32820"},"modified":"2018-07-19T10:05:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:05:02","slug":"afc-asian-cup-top-scorer-ali-daei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/07\/19\/afc-asian-cup-top-scorer-ali-daei\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Asian Cup Top Scorer: Ali Daei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran\u2019s Ali Daei is the all-time top scorer in the AFC Asian Cup in all his participation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli legend Daei leads this race with an impressive total of 14 AFC Asian Cup goals.<\/p>\n<p>Daei was the top scorer in his maiden continental appearance in 1996, netting eight goals; a record for any player in a single AFC Asian Cup tournament. Half of Daei\u2019s goals in 1996 came in one match, against Korea Republic in the quarter-final as Iran won 6-2. He is one of just four players to have bagged four in one game to date.<\/p>\n<p>Four years later in Lebanon, Daei added three more goals, all in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic striker took his overall tally to 14 in 2004 when he was 35 years old. A goal against Thailand and a brace against Bahrain ensured the Iranian would hold this record for many years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Daei\u2019s nearest chaser is Korea Republic\u2019s Lee Dong-gook who has 10 AFC Asian Cup goals to his name. Although Lee is still active at club level with Jeonbuk Hyundai Motor, the 39-year-old is unlikely to be part of the Taeguk Warriors\u2019 setup for UAE 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran\u2019s Ali Daei is the all-time top scorer in the AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32820","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-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1596,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32820","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=32820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32822,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32820\/revisions\/32822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}