{"id":33627,"date":"2018-10-04T18:28:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T01:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33627"},"modified":"2018-10-04T23:42:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T06:42:14","slug":"ali-karimi-nominated-for-best-ever-afc-asian-cup-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/10\/04\/ali-karimi-nominated-for-best-ever-afc-asian-cup-midfielder\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Karimi nominated for Best Ever AFC Asian Cup Midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran legend midfielder Ali Karimi has been nominated as best-ever AFC Asian Cup midfielder.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With less than a hundred days away from January&#8217;s AFC Asian Cup 2019, and the-AFC.com continues its series of articles to determine the all-time best AFC Asian Cup side.<\/p>\n<p>There are 10 candidates for the spots at the middle of the park.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has not reached the AFC Asian Cup final since 1976, yet the last time Team Melli earned a place in the semi-final, Ali Karimi was its talisman.<\/p>\n<p>Karimi bagged five goals in the 2004 AFC Asian Cup, leading Iran to third place in the competition. His goals included an unforgettable hat-trick against Korea Republic in the quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder was named Asian Player of Year and was included in team of the tournament in the same year, earning a move to German giants Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vote here:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-asian-cup\/latest\/news\/vote-for-your-best-ever-afc-asian-cup-midfielder\">http:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-asian-cup\/latest\/news\/vote-for-your-best-ever-afc-asian-cup-midfielder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran legend midfielder Ali Karimi has been nominated as best-ever AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1617,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33627","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=33627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33633,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33627\/revisions\/33633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}