{"id":34771,"date":"2019-01-01T09:45:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T17:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34771"},"modified":"2019-01-01T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T17:45:30","slug":"afc-asian-cup-2019-the-goalkeepers-to-watch-alireza-beiranvand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/01\/afc-asian-cup-2019-the-goalkeepers-to-watch-alireza-beiranvand\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Asian Cup 2019: The goalkeepers to watch [Alireza Beiranvand]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fox Sports Asia &#8211; HONG KONG, <strong><em>FOX Sports Asia football editor Gabriel Tan picks the best goalkeepers to look out for at AFC Asian Cup 2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1) Alireza Beiranvand (Iran)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having only established himself in the national team a couple of years ago, Alireza Beiranvand really rose to prominence at the 2018 FIFA World Cup with a string of fine displays as Iran nearly pipped Spain and Portugal to a spot in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highlight of his tournament came against the Portuguese when he saved a penalty from Cristiano Ronaldo, and \u2013 despite there being no shortage of offers from overseas \u2013 the 26-year-old decided to stay put at Persepolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It proved to be a savvy decision as the Iranian giants went on to reach the AFC Champions League final, although Beiranvand was unable to prevent them from losing 2-0 on aggregate to Kashima Antlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports Asia &#8211; HONG KONG, FOX Sports Asia football editor Gabriel Tan picks the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,172,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-persepolis","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":934,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771","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=34771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34773,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771\/revisions\/34773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}