{"id":33714,"date":"2018-10-11T09:20:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T16:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33714"},"modified":"2018-10-11T13:39:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:39:17","slug":"vote-for-your-best-ever-afc-asian-cup-defender-mehdi-mahdavikia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/10\/11\/vote-for-your-best-ever-afc-asian-cup-defender-mehdi-mahdavikia\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for your best ever AFC Asian Cup defender [Mehdi Mahdavikia]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>We are three months away from January&#8217;s AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019, and the-AFC.com continues its series of articles to determine your all-time best AFC Asian Cup side. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the past few weeks you have been voting for the best forwards and midfielders, and now it&#8217;s time to turn our attention to defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Mahdavikia &#8211; IR Iran<br \/>\nThird Place &#8211; 1996 and 2004 AFC Asian Cup<\/p>\n<p>Capable of playing at the right side of defence or midfield, Mehdi Mahdavikia was one of the finest talents to come out the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia was vital for Iran in the last two times they reached the semi-finals of the AFC Asian Cup in 1996 and in 2004, earning a place in the 2004 Team of the Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 2003 AFC Player of the Year spent the majority of his career playing in the German Bundesliga, and is Team Melli&#8217;s fourth most capped player with 110 appearances, including two involvements in the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Vote here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/features\/vote-for-your-best-ever-afc-asian-cup-defender\">http:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/features\/vote-for-your-best-ever-afc-asian-cup-defender<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, We are three months away from January&#8217;s AFC Asian Cup UAE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,89,142,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1430,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33714","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=33714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33717,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33714\/revisions\/33717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}