{"id":35129,"date":"2019-01-21T09:25:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T17:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35129"},"modified":"2019-01-21T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T17:25:14","slug":"masoud-shojaei-writes-his-name-in-history-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/21\/masoud-shojaei-writes-his-name-in-history-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Masoud Shojaei writes his name in history books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>Veteran midfielder Masoud Shojaei wrote his name into the Iran football record books as the first Iranian player who has represented the country in seven major tournaments.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With two minutes left to play in the match against Oman,&nbsp;Shojaei came off the bench to replace Sardar Azmoun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shojaei, 35, had not played for Team Melli in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup group stage, where the Persians defeated Yemen 5-0 and Vietnam 2-0 and played out a goalless draw against Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a member of Iran national football team in the 2007 AFC Asian Cup and has represented Team Melli in three more editions so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shojaei was also a member of Iran national football team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and has featured Team Melli in 2014 and 2018 World Cups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had previously registered a record as the only Iranian player who has played in three FIFA World Cups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, Veteran midfielder Masoud Shojaei wrote his name into the Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1099,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35129","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=35129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35131,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35129\/revisions\/35131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}