{"id":35621,"date":"2019-03-02T14:36:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T22:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35621"},"modified":"2019-03-02T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T01:17:55","slug":"iman-mobali-announces-retirement-from-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/02\/iman-mobali-announces-retirement-from-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Iman Mobali announces retirement from football"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Tasnim &#8211; AHVAZ, Former Iran and Foolad midfielder Iman Mobali announced his retirement from football on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 36-year-old footballer has hung up his boots after a 19-year career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mobali bade farewell to the football prior to Foolad home game against Esteghlal in Iran Professional League (IPL) in Ahvaz\u2019s Ghadir Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mobali joined Foolad&#8217;s senior team in 2000 and was the key member of his team\u2019s championship in IPL 2004\u201305 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mobali also played for Emirati clubs Al Shabab, Al WAsl, Al Nasr and Al Sharjah and Iranian clubs Esteghlal, Paykan, Naft and Esteghlal Khuzestan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also made 60 appearances for Iran national football team and scored two goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gettyimages-661296576-612x612.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35626\" width=\"286\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gettyimages-661296576-612x612.jpg 408w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gettyimages-661296576-612x612-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gettyimages-661296576-612x612-233x350.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mobali made his debut for Team Melli in January 2001 against China. He was among Iran&#8217;s under-23 squad in 2002, winning a Gold Medal in the Busan Asian Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mobali also was a member of Team Melli in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup and scored a winner for Iran in a 2-1 win over Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gettyimages-107984185-1024x1024-530x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35625\" width=\"403\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gettyimages-107984185-1024x1024-530x700.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gettyimages-107984185-1024x1024-76x100.jpg 76w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gettyimages-107984185-1024x1024-265x350.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gettyimages-107984185-1024x1024.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; AHVAZ, Former Iran and Foolad midfielder Iman Mobali announced his retirement from football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,164,136,142,87,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-memory-lane","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1424,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35621","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=35621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35627,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35621\/revisions\/35627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}